Sen. Bernie Sanders, D-Vt., said Friday that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., delivered a major win for trade critics by announcing that the proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal would not get a vote in the Senate this year.

McConnell had previously said that the controversial deal negotiated by the Obama administration to lower trade barriers among 12 Pacific Rim countries would be voted on after the fall election, but on Thursday he told an audience in Kentucky that the vote was not going to happen after all.