Free trade, immigration are losers, but NAM's Timmons, others see room for business gains The Republicans' sweeping ascendance to the White House while maintaining majorities in the House and Senate is a good news/bad news situation for trade associations, which lean overwhelmingly to the mainstream GOP. Like nearly everyone else, association executives underestimated Trump from the start, going back to the primaries, when CEO Update could find none who supported him—and this was true right up to his victory speech. In the final months of the campaign, K Street talk was all about desperately preserving what was thought to be a fragile GOP hold on the Senate. Instead,… Read More