Obama Takes Anti-Worker Criticisms of Trade Deals ‘Personally’
The president told an audience of liberal supporters that his health care and economic policies prove that he fights for working families.
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President Obama and his agenda get called all sorts of names, but an easy way to strike a nerve is to call his policies "anti-worker."
During a speech on Thursday to Organizing for America—the group that helped campaign for Obama in 2008 and 2012—the president called the Trans-Pacific Partnership the most "progressive" trade agreement in U.S. history and said he takes it "personally" when critics on the left say it will hurt workers.