Thursday, March 29, 2018
Wednesday, March 28, 2018
Nancy Pelosi, Other Liberals Condemn Return of Citizenship Question to Census
“The citizenship question will be the same as the one that is asked on the yearly American Community Survey, ACS,” the Commerce Department said Monday in a press release. “Citizenship questions have also been included on prior decennial censuses.”
From 1820 to 1950, nearly each census recurring every 10 years included some type of a question on citizenship, according to the Commerce Department.
On Dec. 12, the Justice Department asked the Census Bureau to bring back a citizenship question “to provide census block level citizenship voting age population (CVAP) data that is not currently available from government surveys,” officials said in the release.
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., decried the return of the census question.
In a written statement Tuesday, Pelosi said it would “inject fear and distrust into vulnerable communities, and cause traditionally undercounted communities to be even further underrepresented, financially excluded, and left behind.”
California Attorney General Xavier Becerra said his state will sue President Donald Trump’s administration for bringing back the citizenship question, the Los Angeles Times reported.
New York Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman said his state will lead a multistate effort to sue the administration as well.
But Mike Gonzalez, a senior research fellow at The Heritage Foundation, told The Daily Signal that he does not believe the case will go anywhere.
“The suit brought by California’s hyperpolitical Attorney General Xavier Becerra on Monday night, claiming that the question violates the U.S. Constitution, is without merit,” Gonzalez said. “The administration should demand expedited review of...
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U.S. and South Korea Reach ‘Innovative’ Trade Deal Touted as Roadmap for Future Deals
“This is both a good deal for both countries and a very big deal in the history of U.S. trade negotiations,” said one senior administration official who called the agreement “visionary and innovative.”
Details of the deal were communicated to reporters in a Tuesday evening phone briefing.
One of the officials said that this deal “underscores a pattern of failure by previous administrations to negotiate fair and reciprocal trade deals that benefit both countries.”
President Donald Trump directed the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) to renegotiate the deal. USTR did so in coordination with other U.S. agencies.
Officials hailed the new deal as a “big win for American companies and American workers.”
The KORUS trade agreement between the two countries was negotiated under the George W. Bush administration but did not have enough support from Congress and stakeholders at the time. After some renegotiation under the Obama administration, the deal finally had enough support to go into effect in March 2012. Trump officials described the result of the deal as not performing as expected and even in some cases “disastrous.”
One of the biggest problems under KORUS has been U.S. automobile exports. Roughly 80 percent of the trade deficit in goods with South Korea is attributable to autos and auto parts, according to the officials, one of whom identified autos and trucks as a “core driver of the deficit.”
Under the new deal negotiated by the Trump administration, the U.S. will extend a 25 percent tariff on imports of pickup trucks to the U.S. until the year 2041. This is a “big win for U.S. truck producers and the workers,” said one of the officials. Over the past five to six years of the KORUS agreement, U.S. exports of automobiles to South Korea, those built to U.S. safety standards, were capped at 25,000 per manufacturer, per year. An official said this created an economies of scale problem. Under the new agreement, that cap has been raised to 50,000.
The new agreement also reduces some of South Korea’s regulatory burdens to trade of automobiles and auto parts as well as some labeling regulations. One official said the changes will “create a suite of outcomes that are going to make it a lot easier for...
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