No vote on USMCA until next year, McConnell says

Published October 16, 2018 5:12pm ET



Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., said Tuesday that the Senate wasn’t going to be able to vote on the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement on trade before the end of the year. Postponing the vote until next year means that President Trump may have to get it through a divided Congress, should Democrats regain majorities after the fall election.

“That will be a next year issue because the process we have to go through doesn’t allow that to come up before the end of this year,” McConnell said on Bloomberg TV Tuesday.

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