Obama Hopes To Enlist GOP In Push For Trade Pact, Despite Democratic Resistance - The Washington Post

Obama Jilts Dems For GOP-Approved Trade Pact
US President Barack Obama (C) looks at Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R), R-KY, while meeting with members of Congress on foreign policy on July 31, 2014 in the Cabinet Room of the White House in Washington, DC. At left is Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-NV. AFP PHOTO/Mandel NGAN (Photo credit should read MANDEL NGAN/AFP/Getty Images)
US President Barack Obama (C) looks at Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R), R-KY, while meeting with members of Congress on foreign policy on July 31, 2014 in the Cabinet Room of the White House in Washington, DC. At left is Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-NV. AFP PHOTO/Mandel NGAN (Photo credit should read MANDEL NGAN/AFP/Getty Images)

President Obama is preparing a major push on trade that seeks to enlist Republicans as partners and test his premise that Washington can still find common ground on major initiatives, even after he angered the GOP with a recent slew of executive actions.

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