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United States President Donald Trump has signed an executive order that suspends a law prohibiting US companies from paying bribes to foreign governments.
From now on, it is not only easier but also It is legal for US companies to bribe foreign governments.
This is because Donald Trump suspended the law that prevented this type of bribe.
The decision, promulgated on Monday, also freezes criminal proceedings Against the Americans accused of violating the law, which has been in force since 1977.
Journalists in the Oval Hall of the Presidency of the United States, Trump argued that the Decision would bring “much more business for the US”.
The government argues that national security depends on US companies to obtain “Strategic commercial advantages around the world”.
Trump is “preventing excessive and unpredictable application that makes US companies less competitive,” said the presidency.
The law of corruption practices abroad (FCPA) usually prohibits payments related to corruption of foreign authorities in exchange for obtaining or maintaining business.
The United States Parliament enacted FCPA in response to an investigation by the Securities Commission, the financial market regulator, after the Watergate Scandal, which led to the fall of President Richard Nixon (1969-1974).
The investigation revealed that US companies spent hundreds of millions of dollars bribery foreign authorities to guarantee business abroad, the congressional investigation service said.
Trump brings back plastic straws
Also this Monday, Donald Trump signed an executive order for the Return of Plastic Sticksstating that those of paper “do not work” and do not last long.
“It’s a ridiculous situation. Let’s go back to the plastic skills, ”said Trump, when he signed the executive order to review federal purchasing policies that restrict plastic straws.
The measure of the US president, who has long criticized paper straws and even sold in the 2019 Trump brand reelection campaign, aims at a Biden administration policy to gradually eliminate federal purchases of disposable plastics for operations Food services, events and packaging by 2027, and all federal operations by 2035.
In a social media publication during the weekend, Donald Trump declared the Politics of former President Joe Biden “Dead!”
Despite the alerts that the Plastic pollutes the oceans and harms life Navy, Trump considers that “no problem” to continue to use it.
“I don’t think plastic affects sharks a lot“Said the president.
