WEST WING READS 09/10/2019 LET'S GET USMCA PASSED!

USMCA is a Needed Upgrade from NAFTA. Let’s Get it Passed. “As Congress reconvenes this week, we’ll have a choice to make — stand by an outdated, 25-year-old North American Free Trade Agreement, or vote to pass the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement, a modern trade agreement that will create thousands of new American jobs,” Sen. Rob Portman (R-OH) writes in The Washington Post. “Democrats should be leading the charge for its passage, because they have long criticized NAFTA, and because the USMCA addresses the major concerns they have raised with NAFTA,” he adds. “That’s why, if Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) were to bring USMCA to the House floor for a vote, I am confident it would pass.” Click here to read more.

“American farmers and ranchers are the most productive in the world, and consumers in other countries are always wanting American products,” Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue writes in the Redwood Falls Gazette. “President Trump has made it his mission to support American agriculture and negotiate better trade deals, so our productive farmers can sell their bounty around the globe . . . Title by title, verse by verse, USMCA improves virtually every component of the old NAFTA.”

“Nationwide, more than 2 million American manufacturing workers across 43,000 small and medium-sized businesses depend on access to the Canadian and Mexican markets for economic success,” Rep. Vicky Hartzler (R-MO) writes for Fox News. USMCA “will ultimately deliver an additional $2.2 billion in economic activity within the United States, adding more than 176,000 new jobs to our economy.”

“At the end of last month, 14 House Democrats sent a letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, urging her to allow USMCA a vote by the end of the year,” writes Christopher Henney, CEO of the Ohio AgriBusiness Association, in The Columbus Dispatch. "These members represent varied states across the nation, showing how vital this deal is for all Americans."

“Move over, Village People. You've got some unexpected competition. A group of U.S growers calling themselves the Farming People have released a parody of the band's disco-era ‘YMCA’ that urges members of a gridlocked Congress including House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to pass the ‘USMCA,’” Julia Limitone writes in Fox Business.

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