‘Paris deal would have given India, China free pass’

The Paris climate deal would have given a virtual free pass to India and China, and would have cost American economy more than 6.5 million jobs, US vice president Mike Pence said on Wednesday.

“This President put America first not long ago when President Trump made the decision to withdraw the US from the Paris Climate Accord,” Pence said at the National Association of Manufacturers 2017 Manufacturing Summit.

He said by withdrawing the US from “this terrible deal”, Trump put America first. “He left the door opening to renegotiating the deal or coming up with a different agreement. But he put America first, and I promise the manufacturers in this room that President Donald Trump always will,” Pence said.