Democrats dig in against USMCA vote

Key Democrats said Wednesday that they still opposed moving forward on President Trump’s U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement on trade until some further changes are made. They said that despite the White House, Canada, and Mexico addressing several Democratic demands.

Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., the ranking Democrat on the Senate Finance Committee, said in a letter to U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer that he still had serious concerns about USMCA’s mechanisms for resolving investor-state disputes. “I have been open to hearing arguments as to how it may actually work. So far, the Administration’s justification for this mechanism has only increased my worry that the new Agreement will not be enforced,” he said.