All Trump wants for Christmas is unregulated Big Tech. 🎄🤖☠️ Visa bans and trade threats against countries and individuals holding Big Tech companies accountable say it all.

During Trump’s first administration, bailout money from his erratic policies went straight to the banks and big corporations, while small farmers went under. We can’t let this happen again.

Big business is trying to restore NAFTA’s corporate courts. They want the U.S. to give companies more power to challenge governments. ISDS hurts communities and undermines environmental and public health rules. The USMCA review should dismantle ISDS completely, not revive it.

In November, we saw the announcement of four “trade agreements,” and Big Tech is the clear winner. Big Tech has won terms that limit the ability of Argentina, Ecuador, El Salvador, and Guatemala to regulate tech companies in the public interest.

BREAKING: 50 members of Congress say Trump’s tariffs on Brazil are a shameful attack on democracy – undermining efforts to hold coup-instigator Bolsonaro accountable and to regulate social media accounts spreading hate speech and political misinformation online.

Big Tech already got unprecedented new powers when Trump “renegotiated” NAFTA. Now the deal is up for review, and the tech billionaires are demanding even more.

Trump won’t tell the public about his secret plans for the trade deal with Canada and Mexico, which could have major impacts on all of us. Our Director has thoughts ⤵️

Who benefits from Indonesia’s nickel? 👷‍♂️Not workers. 🧑‍🌾Not communities. 🌳Not the environment. U.S. pressure is undermining Indonesia’s industrial strategy; Indonesia should profit most from its resources, period.

Trump’s critical minerals push is locking the Global South into raw extraction while corporations take the profit. Our new report with Satya Bumi exposes how. ⬇️

Trump’s U.S.-Malaysia deal shows exactly how he’s bending rules to control Global South minerals. The “soft law” approach allows Trump to reshape other countries’ mineral policy without: ❌ Congress ❌ Public debate It’s executive overreach on a global scale.

Public Citizen + 35 orgs are calling on the Trump administration to halt secret critical-minerals deals that pose serious risks to transparency, human rights, workers, the environment, and national sovereignty.

Trump’s U.S.-Malaysia deal isn’t “trade.” It’s extractivist colonialism. All obligations fall on Malaysia. The benefits go to U.S. corporations.

You may be asking, is Trump’s new U.S.-Malaysia “trade deal” really a partnership? Answer: HELL NO. It’s extractivist colonialism that locks Malaysia into raw mineral extraction while the U.S. gives almost nothing in return 🧵👇

Day 1 of the USTR USMCA Review Hearing starts today. GTW director @MelindaPubCit is testifying now, calling for a USMCA that protects workers, reins in Big Tech, and ends harmful trade rules driving job loss & forced migration.

Under threat of higher tariffs, the UK has agreed to give more money to Big Pharma, which will do NOTHING to lower the cost of medicines in the U.S. More evidence that Trump’s tariffs are about helping his CEO buds, not working people.

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Wow, it only took 6 months for Trump to determine that it doesn't make sense to tariff things that can't be grown or made in the U.S.... what a very stable genius!

“Tariffs for thee, discounts for those who hire my friends.” Pakistan spent big on Trump-tied lobbyists, and weeks later got VIP access and major tariff reductions.

Trump’s announcements with Latin American countries aren’t real deals — just frameworks that would give more power to Big Tech and Big Pharma.

📢WEBINAR: Join leading voices from around the world to unpack Trump’s economic inequality agenda and explore strategies for global solidarity and resistance. 🗓️ Two Sessions: 11/18 3 PM UTC 👉 bit.ly/GlobalSolidarityCall1 11/19 2 AM UTC 👉 bit.ly/GlobalSolidarityCall2

105 members of Congress, led by Rep.DeLauro, are demanding a USMCA that puts people over profit, stronger labor protections, and eliminates ISDS corporate courts. It’s time to rewrite the deal for workers, farmers, and communities, not Big Tech and corporate interests.

This is BIG -- Rep Doggett and 100+ reps demand full elimination of the ISDS provisions in the USMCA. ISDS empowers corporations to sue governments and get taxpayer money over health, environmental, and other laws they don't like. It's a total scam, and it's on it's way OUT!

Trade agreements must not stand in the way of health and access to medicines. USMCA must be revised to remove extreme intellectual property provisions that keep medicine prices high, discourage competition, and ultimately impede access to medicine.

100+ members of Congress plus hundreds of labor, environmental, health, faith, farmer & migrant justice orgs are demanding a complete overhaul of the USMCA. The message is clear: trade policy must serve people and the planet, not corporate profits. 🌎

Trade and migration are deeply connected. The USMCA must stop fueling displacement and start prioritizing sound immigration policy, human rights, and labor protections. Along with prominent migrant justice groups, we outline how in new comments to USTR.

Trump’s biggest trade deal — the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement #USMCA, aka NAFTA 2.0 — has failed to deliver on its promised benefits to working people and family farmers. Demand a replacement deal that puts people over profits!

Today, we submitted comments to @USTradeRep calling for a complete shift in U.S. trade policy away from corporate dominance & toward workers, consumers, and the planet. 🌍

Trump’s trade deals with Malaysia and Cambodia achieve a new level of imperialist bullying and gift massive handouts to Big Tech and other corporate interests. Some top takeaways below⬇️

In a rare bipartisan move, the Senate rightly rejected Trump’s fraudulent national emergency declaration targeting Brazil. While this move is positive, our Director, Melinda St. Louis, calls out the House Republicans continuing to use procedural B.S to avoid taking a stand on Trump’s tariffs.⬇️

AI regulations, anti-monopoly laws, regulation of electronic payments, privacy and data protection… What do they have in common? They're all on Big Tech’s hit list.

Their profits rise with every deportation. Human suffering has become a revenue stream.

Corporate fat cats love the #USMCA — and now Trump’s billionaire friends are trying to make it even sweeter for themselves with new giveaways that hurt workers, farmers, and the environment across North America. We’ve got 10 DAYS to push back, submit your public comment today!

Guess what? Trump and Big Tech are rewriting global trade rules in secret. Here’s what’s at stake. 🔍

The internet broke yesterday. It wasn’t just an outage; it was monopoly power on full display. When Amazon Web Services (AWS) crashed, banks, social media apps, and even government websites went dark.

The National Trade Estimates Report is a Big Tech wish list in a boring disguise. Instead of respecting countries’ right to regulate for privacy, competition, or AI safety, Trump’s trade office labeled such public-interest laws as “unfair trade barriers.”

Trump’s “trade policy” apparently means handing the NRA and gunmakers a global payday at the expense of public safety and human rights. Removing basic safeguards to stop gun exports to drug cartels and terrorist groups? What could possibly go wrong?

People detained in Trump’s immigration raids are forced to cook, clean, and scrub toilets for $1 a day while GEO Group and CoreCivic earn billions in taxpayer contracts. Stop believing this is about security. It’s about corporate profits.

Trump’s trade chaos isn’t random; it’s a shakedown for Big Tech. Every tariff threat and secret “deal” he makes is pressuring countries to drop privacy, AI, and digital tax rules that Big Tech doesn’t like.

Trump’s trade deal with Mexico and Canada has failed, and this is our chance to demand real change. The USMCA must protect workers, strengthen unions, and put people and the planet before corporate greed. Lobbyists are already swarming — we need to get loud!

Trump’s trade chaos isn’t random — there’s a method to the madness. Behind the tariff tantrums and “America First” bluster lies a clear agenda: helping Big Tech deregulate the world.

Instead of creating good jobs and rebuilding U.S. manufacturing, Trump keeps cutting backroom trade deals that reward Big Tech and Wall Street. Help ensure a renegotiated deal gets better, not worse!

“Free trade” is over, but what comes next is up for debate. In light of the upcoming USMCA renegotiation, we spent the summer sorting through NAFTA’s real legacy: destabilizing communities on both sides of the U.S. border. Read more here! www.citizen.org/article/not-...

Getting rid of NAFTA’s broken legacy won’t be easy and definitely won’t happen by asking foreign leaders to fast-track a golf course in exchange for tariff exemptions.

No word yet from the Commerce Department investigation of tariffs on medicines. But that hasn’t stopped Trump from putting 100% tariffs on patented pharmaceutical products starting next week, unless drug companies are building manufacturing plants in the U.S.

Iza Camarillo, our research director, will be discussing the state of green jobs at the Green Jobs Pavilion 2025 with @greenjobsboard.bsky.social during #ClimateWeekNYC! You don’t want to miss this! 📅 TOMORROW! Tues, Sept 23 ⏰11:00 AM EST 📍Online or at 445 11th Ave, New York, NY 10001

Our Research Dir., Iza Camarillo, will be speaking on a panel about global trade, critical minerals, and ISDS with @ccsi-columbia.bsky.social and @resourcejustice.bsky.social during #ClimateWeekNYC. 📅TOMORROW! Tues, Sept 23 ⏰2:00 PM - 3:30 PM

House Republicans are doing Olympic-level gymnastics to avoid standing up to Trump’s tariffs. Congress must uphold its duty against a president with zero regard for constitutional authority. NEW ➡️ support bipartisan legislation to end Trump's emergency declaration on Brazil.

NEW: Big Tech gave Trump more than $1,000,000,000, now he’s pushing their trade agenda worldwide. Behind closed doors, lobbyists named the digital rules they want dismantled—Trump faithfully obeyed. See which countries are in their crosshairs 👇

Our DTA Research Dir. Rishab Bailey is joining an important discussion about minerals, trade, and digital policy space for the Global South TODAY alongside Abhijit Das, Sanya Reid Smith, H.E. Achsanul Habib, and Rahmat Maulana Sidik from @IGJ2012. #WTOPublicForum

Our DTA Research Dir. Rishab Bailey is looking forward to speaking on minerals & digital trade TODAY alongside @SofiaScasserra, Lynn Boylan, Sanya Reid Smith, and Abhijit Das. #WTOPublicForum