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'Progressive' senators reiterate NAFTA demands in letter to Trump

February 2, 2018 at 2:18 PM
Six senators on Friday implored President Trump to ensure a retooled NAFTA includes strong environmental and labor provisions and takes other steps to stop outsourcing. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and Democrats Kirsten Gillibrand (NY), Elizabeth Warren (MA), Ed Markey (MA), Jeff Merkley (OR) and Mazie Hirono (HI) wrote in a Feb. 2 letter to the president that the “status quo of NAFTA helping corporations outsource more middle class jobs to Mexico every week and attack public health and environmental safeguards in...

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