Blumenauer: USMCA unlikely to pass before August recess

A vote on the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement ahead of Capitol Hill’s August recess is “not going to happen,” House Ways & Means trade subcommittee Chairman Earl Blumenauer (D-OR) said on Thursday. Advocates of the deal are growing increasingly anxious about the timeline for USMCA consideration, eyeing the congressional calendar as well as looming election-year complications. But Blumenauer, speaking at a June 20 event on Capitol Hill hosted by the American Council for Capital Formation, called a vote before the August recess...