With the introduction of fast track authority (also known as „trade promotion authority“) in Congress, by which Congress abdicates its constitutionally-granted sole power to regulate foreign commerce, the USTR (which gains that power) is out in force, spreading all sorts of lies about what this means. It‘s not exactly encouraging when the organization that has been hiding all the details of the TPP agreement for years is now trying to push it forward by directly lying to the American public. It‘s almost as if the USTR can‘t be honest or people might realize that it‘s spent the last few years pushing forward on an agreement designed to prop up old legacy businesses at the expense of the public and new innovators.

The USTR‘s statement on the fast track proposal is full of lies, half-truths and misleading statements. Let‘s look at a few.