Support from the AFL-CIO, which opposes the existing North American Free Trade Agreement and blames it for destroying millions of good-paying manufacturing jobs, would likely ensure support from a majority of House Democrats if the deal is brought up for a vote.
Perhaps realizing the issue will play to Trump's benefit, the union's negotiator tried to wrest credit for deal away from the president.
"The USMCA they signed in 2018 is not going to be the same as the USMCA we see in 2019," said Dan Ujczo, a trade lawer with Dickinson Wright.
The deal will still need passage in Mexico and Canada after the US codifies the trade deal into statutory law.
They wouldn't go along with a massive overhaul of the agreement that they made earlier with Trump, not unless the Democrats went all the way back to NAFTA. And let's not forget too that the ongoing negotiations with Mexico and Canada were conducted by the White House, not the AFL-CIO. As the terms have changed in talks with the House Democrats and Labor, trade representative Robert Lighthizer has held continuous meetings with his counterparts in both countries to simultaneously work out the differences between the original USMCA and the demands being made in the House.
He called it the worst trade deal in history, promising to end it and replace it with a deal that treated American workers with more respect.
Trump has been waiting more than a year for the House to act on the deal, and until recently it appeared that Nancy Pelosi was content to run out the clock on the agreement rather than give Trump a win.
https://hotair.com/archives/ed-morrissey/2019/12/09/afl-cio-chief-got-deal-usmca/
Perhaps realizing the issue will play to Trump's benefit, the union's negotiator tried to wrest credit for deal away from the president.
"The USMCA they signed in 2018 is not going to be the same as the USMCA we see in 2019," said Dan Ujczo, a trade lawer with Dickinson Wright.
The deal will still need passage in Mexico and Canada after the US codifies the trade deal into statutory law.
They wouldn't go along with a massive overhaul of the agreement that they made earlier with Trump, not unless the Democrats went all the way back to NAFTA. And let's not forget too that the ongoing negotiations with Mexico and Canada were conducted by the White House, not the AFL-CIO. As the terms have changed in talks with the House Democrats and Labor, trade representative Robert Lighthizer has held continuous meetings with his counterparts in both countries to simultaneously work out the differences between the original USMCA and the demands being made in the House.
He called it the worst trade deal in history, promising to end it and replace it with a deal that treated American workers with more respect.
Trump has been waiting more than a year for the House to act on the deal, and until recently it appeared that Nancy Pelosi was content to run out the clock on the agreement rather than give Trump a win.
https://hotair.com/archives/ed-morrissey/2019/12/09/afl-cio-chief-got-deal-usmca/
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