Karoline Leavitt: «I spoke with our entire trade team this morning. We are making great strides. We now have 18 proposals on paper that have been presented to the trade team. Again, these are written proposals that countries have submitted to the Trump administration and our government.
We have Secretary Besant, Secretary Lutnik, Ambassador Greer, NEC Director Hassett, and Peter Navarro, the entire trade team, meeting with 34 countries just this week. We are moving at Trump’s speed to ensure these agreements are finalized on behalf of American workers and the American people.
And just yesterday, something that seemed to go unnoticed in the news, which I consider an injustice to the American people, the Vice President announced the terms of reference for a trade agreement with India. This is a big deal.
We know that if we look at the numbers, India’s monetary and non-monetary trade barriers have been ripping off the United States and American workers for a long time.
So the fact that the Vice President, alongside Prime Minister Modi on that trip to India, announced these terms of reference, which essentially are a framework for moving forward toward signing a good trade agreement between our two nations, is a major step forward and speaks to the work ethic and real effort that the President’s trade team is putting in.»
