Inside U.S. Trade - 09/20/2019
McCarthy: USMCA must be passed by Thanksgiving or it won’t get done
House minority leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) said on Thursday that Congress must pass the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement by Thanksgiving or the deal won’t be ratified at all, putting the onus solely on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) to bring an implementing bill to the House floor. “If it came to the floor it would pass,” McCarthy told Fox Business News on Thursday. “[Pelosi] has all the power to bring the bill up.” The Trump administration has not yet submitted an implementing...