WEST WING READS 09/04/2019 USMCA GOOD DEAL FOR UNION WORKERS!

USMCA Good Deal for Union Workers “When members of Congress return from their August recess, they’ll face one of the most important decisions of their political careers — whether to ratify President Trump’s new trade deal with Canada and Mexico,” Deena Flinchum writes in the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review. The United States–Mexico–Canada Agreement (USMCA) is a better deal in every sense than NAFTA, the outdated pact that currently governs North American trade. “USMCA would strengthen labor protections, create jobs and discourage U.S. firms from outsourcing work abroad,” Flinchum explains. “NAFTA enabled giant corporations to outsource jobs . . . Unions have railed against NAFTA for three decades. Now, their allies in Congress finally have an opportunity to scrap that deal and replace it with a new agreement that protects American workers.” Click here to read more.

“White House adviser Ivanka Trump helped to launch a U.S.-funded initiative supporting women entrepreneurs in Colombia on Tuesday as part of her three-nation tour of South America,” Dave Boyer reports for The Washington Times. “Ms. Trump said the new Academy of Women Entrepreneurs will help to reduce barriers to women’s participation in the economy” and “equip women with the practical skills they need to create sustainable businesses and to participate more fully in the global economy.”

“James Comey, the former FBI director who oversaw the investigation into Hillary Clinton’s unlawful handling of official emails, has been chastised by the Justice Department for his improper handling of official memos. The irony is so thick that it’s hard not to laugh,” the Washington Examiner editorial board writes. “But there’s a serious problem here: Comey’s and Clinton’s actions reflect an arrogance of power and a gross disregard for the rule of law. The work that public servants produce belongs to the public. It doesn’t belong in one’s study at home or on one’s homebrewed server.”

“Funny, but I didn’t find much about the criticism of former FBI director James Comey on The New York Times website last Friday. That was the day after the Justice Department’s internal investigator, Michael Horowitz, blasted Comey for being deceitful about memos he leaked, through a friend, to The Times,” John Crudele writes in the New York Post. It’s “embarrassing when the public gets to see how news stories come about.”