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Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free _Mother Jones Daily_. James Pethokoukis says that although Barack Obama may be temperamentally
in favor of liberalized trade policy, he’s not actually doing anything about it: > The wonks aren’t driving U.S trade policy in the Obama > administration. The political team is. Its
priority is passing > healthcare reform. To pass healthcare reform, Obama needs his core > union support. And a push for new trade agreements would alienate > Big Labor. Hey, I know
how to fix that! Pass the healthcare bill! Then Obama will be free to do whatever he wants on trade. (Though, let’s face it: with unemployment at 10% there’s not going to be much stomach
for an aggressive push on trade no matter what happens to healthcare. So this probably isn’t a very urgent issue anyway.)