Donald Trump has a rough time on his trip to Argentina for the Group of 20 Summit meeting…
Michael Cohen’s 2nd guilty plea story had ruined his day…..
So?
His people seem to have provided some good feeling for the guy with the announcement that a tentative agreement has been reached between the three countries that would replace the NAFTA agreement signed by Bill Clinton….
Democratic US Senate Minority leader Chuck Schumer is signaling that he will work WITH the basic terms of the agreement and not contest it outright…
Incoming House Speaker Pelosi will also have a say in the final agreement that Congress must approve…
The new renamed trade agreement (USMCA) is NOT a complete undoing of the basic old NAFTA trade agreement, But Trump is gonna point to himself as the guy who got a new ‘deal’…That is if it actually passes the 3 countries lawmakers ok…
President Trump, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto signed onto USMCA — the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement, a revamped version of NAFTA — at the G20 summit in Buenos Aires on Friday.
The big picture: The deal still has to be approved by Congress, which is far from guaranteed, as well as the Canadian and Mexican legislatures. And even though USMCA only contains modest changes from NAFTA, Trump still views the deal as a major win after promising on the campaign trail to get rid of the “single worst trade deal ever approved.”….
Enrique Peña Nieto (PRI) is president of Mexico for the moment, as the G/20 summit begins, but I think that he gives way tomorrow to Andrés Manuel López Obrador or AMLO (opposition coalition).
Yup…..
I understand that Trump’s people have been trying to get the incoming Mexican admin to hold asylum seekers back in Mexico while they are processed…..
I have seen something that this policy by Trump’s people come be illegal….
But Trump’s people only follow the law if their feet are held to the fire…..