AFL-CIO open to helping Trump
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}The president of America's largest labor organization expressed his willingness to work with President Donald Trump during an interview Tuesday.
AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka said that he has been impressed by Trump on several key economic issues, particularly trade, though he considers his overall performance a "mixed bag."
Trump followed through on a campaign promise to withdraw from the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a trade deal with a dozen Asian countries. The deal was originally negotiated by the Obama administration and embraced by newly elected Democratic National Committee Chairman Tom Perez, who served as President Obama's Labor Secretary.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}"What he did on TPP was good. The thing he's trying to do with infrastructure is good. There's a lot of those things. And then on the other side, he put some people in there that were anti-union," Trumka told Fox News's Neil Cavuto.
The AFL-CIO endorsed former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in June after staying neutral during her contentious primary against self-described socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders (I., Vt.). The union spent more than $20 million in its efforts to elect Clinton and other Democratic candidates, according to the Center for Responsive Politics. Trumka denounced Trump onstage at the Democratic National Conventional in July.