SENATE APPROVAL OF USMCA FACES DELAY

A full Senate vote on President Donald Trump’s rewritten NAFTA agreement will be put off until next week at the earliest, after the deal was referred to multiple committees for review, according to a GOP aide. The Senate Finance Committee voted 25-3 on Tuesday to advance the legislation to implement the U.s.-mexico- Canada trade deal. The accord was also referred to six other panels that could take weeks to consider it, even though the committees can’t change the content of the deal. The committees on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions; Environment and Public Works; Appropriations; Foreign Relations; Commerce, Science, and Transportation; and Budget haven’t announced whether they will take time to examine it. The final vote could be delayed further depending on the progress of the impeachment process.