How Bill Clinton’s NAFTA law in 1994 could sink Kamala Harris in 2024

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A political controversy that’s more than three decades old could cost Vice President Kamala Harris the 2024 election next month.

Democratic President Bill Clinton signed the North American Free Trade Agreement that went into effect on Jan. 1, 1994. The deal was fiercely opposed by labor unions and some environmentalists but backed by Clinton, House Speaker Newt Gingrich, and a coalition that included the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.

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