Budd and Walker Continue to Support Highly Flawed USMCA Trade Agreement

You can be sure about one thing. If Nancy Pelosi approves of something, chances are that it is highly problematic. 

The news this week that Pelosi supports the USMCA trade agreement, and will allow a vote, is an ominous sign. That would mean that multiple horrid provisions demanded by Pelosi were added over a period of time. I had posted about this issue here nearly two months ago. 

Ted Budd and Mark Walker continue to support this highly flawed agreement. While I understand the impulse to support the President, secure a "win" for him, help our farmers, and tweak our trade imbalances, this is precisely the wrong way to do it.

I had explained previously that the agreement will:

• Jeopardize our religious liberty. Remember that Canada has engaged in horrific persecution against orthodox Christians. Look at what is in the agreement.
• Create the equivalent of a North American Union: It is ironic that Pelosi's support and the upcoming vote were announced the very same week that the British people voted in dramatic fashion to exit the European Union. Meanwhile, we would be entering a structure similar to the European Union-- i.e., essentially a North American Union. We would have Mexicans and Canadians directing our domestic policy on energy, the environment, labor and other matters.
• Open the floodgates of migration into the United States just as we saw happen in the European Union.

Senators Pat Toomey and John Cornyn have expressed major concerns about the agreement. Fortunately, the Mexicans are also getting cold feet. They don't like the fact that the agreement would require foreign labor monitors.

The New American has done the best reporting, by far, regarding what is actually in the agreement. It has been compared to the failed Trans-Pacific Partnership that was such a bad deal for the United States.

It would be best if this thing dies a merciful death, and if Trump simply stops NAFTA. There would be some economic repercussions; but we would then be able to negotiate a clean agreement, and use tariffs wherever necessary. It would be better to negotiate two separate agreements-- one with Mexico, and one with Canada. Trying to negotiate with both simultaneously unnecessarily complicates things.

Congress needs to stop this thing, if the Mexicans do not.