WEST WING READS 01/30/2020 USMCA IS AN INTERNATIONAL GAME CHANGER!!!

Trump's USMCA Is Not Just Biggest Deal Ever—It's an International Game Changer “As a candidate, Donald Trump called NAFTA the ‘worst trade deal ever’ and vowed its replacement. On Wednesday, he fulfilled that promise, signing the new USMCA trade pact covering North America. The deal is Trump’s biggest yet—in fact the biggest in history,” foreign policy and diplomacy expert Christian Whiton writes for Fox Business. "The deal is an unequivocal win for America and will help Canada and Mexico over the long run. It puts an end to unfair Canadian tariffs that amounted to nearly 300 percent in some cases, thus creating a level playing field for American farmers and ranchers." Click here to read more.

“Deaths from drug overdoses dropped slightly in 2018, a first in nearly two decades as the nation confronts a massive opioid epidemic. The reduction in drug overdose deaths, reported Thursday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, of 4.1%, helped to slightly bump up life expectancy from 78.6 years in 2017 to 78.7 years in 2018,” Kimberly Leonard reports for the Washington Examiner.

“Three of our last nine presidents have faced impeachment, while only one of the previous 36 did. This is an unacceptable new normal, and Senate Republicans should send a clear message to future Congresses that cynical partisan impeachment will be thwarted. Perhaps even a few courageous Democrats can join them,” David Marcus writes in the New York Post.

“A new Gallup poll indicates that satisfaction with race relations and the position of minorities in America have significantly increased since President Trump took office." The President's record includes more funding for Historically Black Colleges and Universities as well as historic criminal justice reform, Rusty Weiss reports for The Political Insider.