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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsGuy who shipped 2,700 jobs overseas since 2004 is new U.S. commerce secretary. #MAGA!
Billionaire investor Wilbur Ross was sworn in as U.S. commerce secretary on Tuesday after helping shape Republican President Donald Trump's opposition to multilateral trade deals.
Vice President Mike Pence administered the oath of office to Ross, 79, a day after the U.S. Senate voted to confirm the corporate turnaround expert's nomination, with strong support from Democrats.
While commerce secretaries rarely take the spotlight in Washington, Ross is expected to play an outsize role in pursuing Trump's campaign pledge to slash U.S. trade deficits and bring manufacturing jobs back to America.
Some Democrats criticized Ross as another billionaire in a Trump Cabinet that says it is focused on the working class and for being a "vulture" investor who has eliminated some jobs. Reuters reported last month that Ross's companies had shipped some 2,700 jobs overseas since 2004.
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-commerce-idUSKBN1671XC?feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=Social
Vice President Mike Pence administered the oath of office to Ross, 79, a day after the U.S. Senate voted to confirm the corporate turnaround expert's nomination, with strong support from Democrats.
While commerce secretaries rarely take the spotlight in Washington, Ross is expected to play an outsize role in pursuing Trump's campaign pledge to slash U.S. trade deficits and bring manufacturing jobs back to America.
Some Democrats criticized Ross as another billionaire in a Trump Cabinet that says it is focused on the working class and for being a "vulture" investor who has eliminated some jobs. Reuters reported last month that Ross's companies had shipped some 2,700 jobs overseas since 2004.
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-commerce-idUSKBN1671XC?feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=Social
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Guy who shipped 2,700 jobs overseas since 2004 is new U.S. commerce secretary. #MAGA! (Original Post)
Miles Archer
Feb 2017
OP
And biggest stockholder in that Cyprus bank that's been money laundering for Russian oligarchs....
bettyellen
Feb 2017
#1
Wilber Ross is a slimey fraud and the fact that he is now Commerce Secretary says how corrupt
democratisphere
Feb 2017
#3
bettyellen
(47,209 posts)1. And biggest stockholder in that Cyprus bank that's been money laundering for Russian oligarchs....
Like the one that grossly overpaid Trump for that ugly house. The most expensive house ever sold in America.
shenmue
(38,506 posts)2. This asshole
democratisphere
(17,235 posts)3. Wilber Ross is a slimey fraud and the fact that he is now Commerce Secretary says how corrupt
the current WH is.
Vinca
(50,310 posts)4. Isn't he the guy Rachel mentioned re money laundering?
GliderGuider
(21,088 posts)5. Shared the Chairmanship of Cyprus Bank with a former KGB agent.
Tool of the Eastern Oligarchy.