Trump will still be President in 2020Typhoon wrote:I keep seeing articles claiming that the US cannot exit the Paris Accord until 2020, by which time the authors hope that there will be a new POTUS.Mr. Perfect wrote:Done deal. America is great again.Doc wrote:He has to pull out of the agreement officially No pull out No MAGAMr. Perfect wrote:America is great again.
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/ ... 1-09-01-31
President Donald Trump is expected to withdraw the United States from a landmark global climate agreement, a White House official said Wednesday
My understanding that the POTUS can negotiate a treaty, but that it only become binding, that the US is obliged to honour the terms, only after being ratified by a supermajority of the US Senate.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/vol ... ly-joined/
The U.S. can’t quit the Paris climate agreement, because it never actually joined