White House presses ahead with sending USMCA to Congress without Pelosi greenlight

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The Trump administration on Thursday began the process for seeking congressional approval of the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement on trade, starting the clock on when the House would be required to vote in order to ratify it.

The White House had waited on a greenlight from House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., to submit the deal but indicated in recent weeks it had grown impatient. Pelosi said the White House was jumping the gun.

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