Finance Democrats: Lighthizer offered no reassurance on NAFTA, said withdrawal decision is Trump's

U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer this week failed to reassure Democratic members of the Senate Finance Committee that he could prevent a NAFTA withdrawal, several senators told Inside U.S. Trade -- and Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-MO) said the USTR “acknowledged that agriculture is in big trouble.” “He gave us no reassurance of that at all,” Sen. Ben Cardin (D-MD) said of Lighthizer’s reaction to questions about withdrawing from NAFTA during his meeting with the Democrats on Wednesday. “He said...