Democrats back away from demand to reopen USMCA talks

Published June 25, 2019 10:54pm ET



House Democrats are backing away from their demand that the Trump administration get its trade partners to renegotiate the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement on trade.

Some Democrats are arguing that the necessary changes to the deal can be made at the margins. Others still claim that the deal must be rewritten but that reopening talks won’t be necessary to do so.

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