Potential role in the transatlantic trade negotiations. For those of you just in case you didnt get a copy you will also be liable to download this from the brookings website and as i know from coming into the office we have boxes of it sitting around so if you didnt get a copy, get in touch with us and we can get one out to you again launching of the report today and we will be talking about some of his conclusions from having spent several months now looking at turkeyss interest in the negotiations and how this is likely to unfold and the challenges this will pose not just for your not what for turkey and for some of the others and will be interesting to see how they feel between europe and the United States unfold. We are also very much delighted to have our neighbor and colleague uri dadush from the Carnegie Endowment who is one of the u. S. s phoenix experts on the economic trade topic. And a director of the International Economic program next to carnegie. He will give a brief ove
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Room, making clear what he thinks of the sequester. We shouldnt be making a series of dumb, arbitrary cuts to things that businesses depend on and workers depend on, like education and research and infrastructure and defense. Woodruff the president was also adamant on where the blame lies with those who balked at erasing tax loopholes for the wealthy and other revenue raisers. None of this is necessary. Its happening because. A choice that republicans in congress have made. Theyve allowed these cuts to happen because they refuse to budge on closing a single wasteful loophole to help reduce the deficit. Woodruff but republicans were having none of it. Shortly before the president emerged, House Speaker john boehner again rejected the demand for more taxes. The president got his tax hikes on january 1. This discussion about revenue, in my view, is over. Its about taking on the spending problem here in washington. Woodruff the president now has until just before midnight to issue an order
We shouldnt be making a series of dumb, arbitrary cuts to things that businesses depend on and workers depend on, like education and research and infrastructure and defense. Woodruff the president was also adamant on where the blame lies with those who balked at erasing tax loopholes for the wealthy and other revenue raisers. None of this is necessary. Its happening because. A choice that republicans in congress have made. Theyve allowed these cuts to happen because they refuse to budge on closing a single wasteful loophole to help reduce the deficit. Woodruff but republicans were having none of it. Shortly before the president emerged, House Speaker john boehner again rejected the demand for more taxes. The president got his tax hikes on january 1. This discussion about revenue, in my view, is over. Its about taking on the spending problem here in washington. Woodruff the president now has until just before midnight to issue an order that makes the cuts official. It will be weeks befo