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Senate Won't Vote on USMCA Deal Until 2020, McConnell Says
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1:06Now PlayingHouse Democrats embraced the U.S.-Mexico-Canada trade agreement after securing key revisions and announced plans to vote on the deal next week, putting President Donald Trump closer to a political win as he heads into the 2020 election.
Speaker Nancy Pelosi praised the changes her House Democats were able to negotiate, saying the revised deal is better for American workers. She said the new version of the accord, known as the USMCA, will be a model for other trade agreements going forward.
“This is the day we have been waiting for,” Pelosi told reporters. “It is infinitely better than what was initially proposed by the administration.”
Trump welcomed the finalized Nafta overhaul, which has been languishing for more than a year and could resolve some of the uncertainty weighing on the economy as he heads into his re-election campaign. But it is also a win for House Democrats who are eager to prove that they can do more than investigate and impeach Trump.
The timing on Tuesday was extraordinary, with Pelosi flanked by more than 30 of her colleagues announcing the long-awaited trade deal just minutes after chairmen of House committees investigating Trump unveiled the two articles of impeachment they plan to bring against the president. She said the back-to-back announcements were not a coincidence.
“We are at the end of the session and you have to make some decisions,” Pelosi said.
The timing will prove more difficult in the Republican-led Senate, according to Majority Leader Mitch McConnell. He told reporters Tuesday that the Senate won’t take up the USMCA until after it finishes with the impeachment trial next year.
“We will not be doing USMCA next week in the Senate,” McConnell said Tuesday.
On Oct. 12, 2011, the House and Senate passed trade agreements with Korea, Panama, and Colombia, according to Henry Connelly, a Pelosi spokesman.
“Senator McConnell has no excuse not to bring up the USMCA,” Connelly said in an emailed statement.
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