Trump NAFTA plan draws cautious response from business, labor

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Lawmakers and business and labor groups reacted cautiously to President Trump’s proposed agenda for renegotiating the North American Free Trade Agreement. The agenda was broad enough and vague enough that groups on all sides of the issue remain hopeful that the president, a long-time critic of NAFTA, can be swayed their way.

“The objectives they outlined aren’t bad. This devil is in the details,” said a staffer for a Democratic lawmaker who requested anonymity. It is the one area where some people who are ordinarily Trump critics are inclined to cut him some slack — for now, anyway. “Considering that this is the first president of either party willing to renegotiate NAFTA, we recognize that things aren’t going to be too easy.”

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