While Washington is frozen by impeachment, China’s buying our chicken, F-35s are broken and a trade deal may actually happen
are supposed to feel like the moment that time stood still. Network anchors swept into town and went live with Cronkite-level sobriety. Capitol Hill televisions all tuned in, with partisans hanging on every word of State Department bureaucrats whose memory of a phone call hold the fate of Donald Trump’s presidency.The machinery of the federal government is madly at work outside of the klieg lights of the impeachment hearings.
The poultry play comes as the United States and China strive to put the finishing touches on a trade agreement President Donald Trump hopes will exponentially grow Chinese purchases of U.S. farm products to an ambitious annual figure of $40 billion to $50 billion. Farm exports are still hurting plenty thanks to Trump's tariffs on Chinese goods, but the chicken agreement is a sign of potential detente in a damaging trade war.
An agreement could be reached as soon as Friday or Monday. Details will still need working out, including how much to provide for Trump’s border wall, but Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell have turned down the temperature on any shutdown, and Trump doesn’t seem inclined to blow up the process this time.
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