GOP senators call for quick NAFTA replacement vote before Democrats take power

Sen. Pat Toomey and a group of Republicans are calling on GOP congressional leadership to hold a vote on the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement on trade during Congress’ upcoming lame duck session to prevent Democrats from watering down the deal when they take the majority in the House next year.

“President Trump should work with congressional Republicans to incorporate additional free-trade features in the USMCA’s implementing legislation so that it can be passed before the next Congress is sworn in on Jan. 3, 2019,” Toomey wrote in an op-ed Wednesday for the Wall Street Journal. The op-ed follows on a letter sent Tuesday by Toomey and 11 other GOP senators making the same plea.