Biden now opposes Trans-Pacific Partnership that Obama administration pursued

Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden said Wednesday that he now opposes the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a 12-nation trade deal for which the Obama administration sought congressional approval. Biden, then vice president, was involved in lobbying lawmakers to back the deal.

“I would not rejoin the TPP as it was initially put forward. I would insist that we renegotiate pieces of that with the Pacific nations … so that we could bring them together to hold China accountable,” Biden said during the Democratic presidential debate Wednesday. Biden did not elaborate on why he no longer supported the deal or how it needed to be changed.