President Donald Trump has fulfilled a key campaign pledge by withdrawing the United States from the 12-nation Trans-Pacific Partnership.<br /><br /> Trump signed an executive order on Monday pulling the US out of the trade deal. <br /><br /> Trump called the TPP order a ‘‘great thing for the American worker.’‘<br /><br /> In an Oval Office ceremony, Trump also signed another order imposed a federal hiring freeze and a directive cutting funding to non-governmental organisations that provide abortions abroad.<br />
