The Democrats are saying they have made progress on the
USMCA agreement. This is a NAFTA enhancement or replacement that the Trump
administration managed to negotiate with Canada
and Mexico last
year. It has been sitting in the US
House for a year while the House plays around with fun and games and
impeachment. Everyone, even AFL-CIO,
thinks it ought to pass.
The Democratic claim to have
amended the bill and made it better sounds like fake news to me. This is an international treaty, agreed to by
Canada and Mexico. I don’t think the US
house has the power to modify a treaty without getting Canada
and Mexico to
say OK. Which they probably won’t. Any changes dreamed up by Democrats in the US
House will make things better for the US
and worse for our trading partners.
So to show that the
do-nothing House is actually doing something, the Democrats now say they are
"making progress". I say they
are do-nothings until they actually vote to pass the USMCA. Which they should have done a year ago.
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