The Trump administration and House Democrats reached an agreement on the United States-Mexico-Canada trade deal, Democrats said on Dec. 10.
“This is a hemispheric trade agreement,” House Ways and Means Committee chairman Rep. Richard Neal (D-Mass.) said at a press conference about the USMCA.
“This is a day we’ve all been working to and working for, on the path to ‘yes,'” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said.
“We were in range for a while,” she added, but Democrats were working on strengthening enforcement on worker protections, environmental matters, and other issues.
Neal and Pelosi were holding a press briefing on the deal, known as USMCA, around 10 a.m. on Tuesday—about an hour after House Democrats announced two articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump.
Robert Lighthizer, the U.S. trade representative, was in Mexico to sign the revised USMCA with Mexican and Canadian officials. The announcement came one day after Richard Trumka, president of The American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organization (AFL-CIO), said that a deal was reached between Democrats and the White House and his union was reviewing it. The AFL-CIO is strongly linked to leading Democrats. Trump said on Twitter Tuesday morning that the USMCA was “looking good.”
“It will be the best and most important trade deal ever made by the USA. Good for everybody—Farmers, Manufacturers, Energy, Unions—tremendous support. Importantly, we will finally end our Country’s worst Trade Deal, NAFTA!” he said...
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