Ted Cruz (Trade)

Cruz's Trade (section page)

• Cruz has been rated as a "Free Trade Supporter" by the Cato Institute and Wall Street Journal (CI) (WSJ)
• supported the Trans-Pacific Partnership free trade agreement until the eve of the vote to “fast-track” the measure when he voted against it (WSJ)
  • said he changed his mind becayse he found “new troubling information” in details of the emerging trade deal that suggests that the fast track bill could make it easier for Obama to change federal immigration law and also complained that House Speaker John Boehner punished Republicans who opposed the bill in the House. (WSJ)
• Cruz strongly disapproves of the Export-Import Bank (USA)
  • “The Export-Import Bank is big businesses’ big-government bank backed by U.S. taxpayers" (USA)