NRCC chair: Trans-Pacific Partnership will fail in Congress

Published July 18, 2016 3:11pm ET



CLEVELAND — Congress won’t ratify the Trans-Pacific Partnership in the foreseeable future, according to the lawmaker who leads the campaign arm of the House Republicans.

“My guess is that if you put it up for a vote on the floor today, it would go down dramatically,” National Republican Congressional Committee Chairman Greg Walden said during an Atlantic Live breakfast at the Republican National Convention.

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