House Speaker Nancy Pelosi appears to have blinked on her stance regarding the United States-Mexico-Canada Trade Agreement (USMCA).
While initially stating this agreement may not make it to the House floor until after the new year, Pelosi is now stating that the agreement is very close to being finalized and put before Congress for approval.
House Pressure
The reason Nancy is beginning to buckle is that she is getting pressure from both sides.
Listen, we all know when Congress wants to put a bill on the floor, it happens quickly.
Pelosi, however, is trying to sell the delay as a process.
She stated, “I keep telling the freshman class: ‘This is about legislation. It takes time.’”
I beg to differ, however.
How long did it take Schiff to write up his impeachment rules and how long did it take for Democrat lawmakers to put legislation on the floor to protect their precious illegal immigrants?
When politicians truly want something to get passed, they have it on the floor within days, not months, which is how long that trade deal has been sitting on Pelosi’s desk.
Still Have to Take a Shot
One of the real reasons Pelosi is holding this back is because she wants to keep the news cycle negative for Trump.
Trump flipped the script, though, by railing about this incessantly to the point voters are not putting pressure on their elected representatives to get this trade deal in place because it will benefit American business owners.
Not only that, both Mexico and Canada are starting to get itchy to the point that some pundits believe if this agreement is not approved by Congress soon, the deal will be scrapped, which would be a complete disaster.
Pelosi, however, even though she is buckling, is not going to allow Trump to get all the glory.
On the USMCA, she recently called Trump’s version of the deal a sugar-coated version of NAFTA, a trade agreement Trump openly opposed.
She also stated, “The NAFTA 2.0 draft lacked the concrete, effective enforcement mechanisms needed to ensure that the agreement became more than a list of promises on paper.”
Point being, Nancy is trying to portray the Democrat House as the savior, not Trump. This way, she can attempt to throw shade on Trump while taking full credit for the deal, but I doubt most Americans are going to buy that.
All Pelosi is really doing is once again exposing how childish Democrats have become and engaging in political theater rather than the business of legislating.
Her attitude and conduct are exactly why we need to flush swamp members out of the House and Senate and put some new blood in there on both sides of the aisle that will actually put We the People first.