House Democrats are "heel-dragging" on the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) because they want to deny President Donald Trump "a high-profile win" amid a "Trump derangement syndrome" that has engulfed Capitol Hill, the two top Republicans in Congress argued Monday.
"Washington Democrats have been so consumed by their personal hatred for this president that they can no longer recognize good policy when they see it," Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., and House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., said in an op-ed in The Wall Street Journal.
The USMCA deal with Mexico and Canada is expected to pump $68 billion and 176,000 jobs into the American economy, the Republicans argued, and "even in this politically charged moment, a success of this scale should be a no-brainer."
The Republican-controlled Senate "stands ready, willing and eager" to pass USMCA, "but House Democrats have been more interested in picking fights with the White House than clinching bipartisan victories for America," McConnell and McCarthy said.
The legislators slammed House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., for trying "to run out the clock" on the trade agreement and accused Democrats of claiming to "support the deal in the abstract but have spent months finding one excuse after another to delay passing it."
McConnell and McCarthy detailed the accord's benefits across various economic sectors — $500 billion for total U.S. exports, $30 billion for the automotive industry, $2.2 billion for agriculture — and said that "its enactment or failure will have life-changing consequences for workers."
The Republicans concluded that "the Democratic delaying tactics are hurting the country" and that the Democratic outrage against President Trump that was fueling their resistance to the USMCA "will have drained potential prosperity from all 50 states and killed a huge number of American jobs."
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