Congress has been sitting on the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement, or USMCA, for months. A badly needed update to NAFTA, the USMCA is in danger of being talked to death by Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, despite the free trade agreement enjoying broad bipartisan support. Many fear that if USMCA is not passed soon, it will fall victim to presidential politics and autumnal congressional budgetary brinksmanship. It goes without saying that most conservatives support it, as they do virtually any free trade pact.
But there’s another reason conservatives should get behind the USMCA: economic growth. According to the U.S. International Trade Commission, an independent federal agency that analyzes trade deals, the USMCA would create 176,000 new jobs and permanently increase the size of our economy by $68.2 billion, or 0.35%. That’s like giving $200 to every man, woman, and child in America, every year.
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