The president has always had the authority to negotiate trade deals. What TPA has done for the past 40 years is set out the guidelines Congress expects the president to follow. If he follows those guidelines, then the deal gets an up or down vote. If he doesn't, the deal can be amended, filibustered, etc. Every president since Ford has had TPA...
TPP would have been voted on whether TPA was in effect or not. And if either house of Congress determined that the president did not follow the guidelines laid out in TPA, either one could have voided the Fast Track authority for TPP.
You have no idea what you are talking about - you are just repeating your Trumpkin talking points.
I read obsessively about the TPA and TPP. Not on Trumpkin sites, whatever they are.
You Cruzfanbois can tie youreslf into knots if you like, but you don’t fool normal people.
Duchess47’s comment above yours gives the truth, I am copying below. I can’t believe how Cruzfanbois are willing to lie lie lie lie, it’s embarrassing to even read the fanboi comments.
Senator Ted Cruz’s statement that he “always opposed TPP” is incorrect. He and Representative Paul Ryan co-authored an April 21, 2015 op-ed in the Wall Street Journal (Putting Congress in Charge on Trade) in which they both supported fast-tracking TPP (the Trans Pacific Partnership). Cruz was also incorrect when he implied that TPA is separate from TPP. TPA (Trade Promotion Authority) was the “fast-track” bill that gave up Congress’s right to amend or filibuster TPP and which reduced the number of votes required to pass TPP from two thirds of the Senate to a simple majority in each chamber.