Economics
Ex-Bush Commerce Chief Says Trump Trade Plan Invites ‘Disaster’
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Carlos Gutierrez, former U.S. commerce secretary.
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A Republican and former Cabinet secretary said he’s supporting Democrat Hillary Clinton to be president partly because Donald Trump’s economic plans are the types of strategies followed by “very poor countries” and don’t fit the world’s largest economy.
“I haven’t heard an economic concept come out of Trump’s mouth, except for protectionism and lower taxes,” Carlos Gutierrez, who led the Commerce Department in the George W. Bush administration from 2005 to 2009, said in an interview Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union” broadcast. “You put those two together, that is a recipe for disaster.”