“Speaker Nancy Pelosi will host President Trump’s top trade official on Wednesday, the meeting coming as the president faces backlash from lawmakers in both parties over his increasingly aggressive and controversial trade agenda,” Politico reports.
“Pelosi controls the fate of the trade deal — a successor to the North American Free Trade Agreement — which would need to be ratified by Congress. But the speaker has resisted pressure to move quickly on a vote, saying the pact won’t be considered in the House until several Democratic demands are met, including enforcement measures she wants written into the underlying deal.”
“The political window to consider the agreement is quickly closing, with lawmakers saying the deal must be ratified by the end of the summer or it won’t likely be done at all as Washington shifts to the 2020 presidential election.”
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