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Hours after impeaching the president, the house passed the president's North American

trade agreement.

It's an awful lot like the North American Free Trade

Agreement, the President Lambasted on the campaign trail, but the bottom line is

that it could mean less trade between Mexico, Canada, and the United States.

Heaters Dan Eichenson and Simon Lester comment.

The president has hailed this trade agreement as one of the greatest to be remembered

for all time.

Generally, how different is this from NAFTA and the TPP

two things that the president thought were terrible.

I think the biggest takeaway is that this agreement has provisions that are likely to lead to

a reduction in trade among the three parties. The president sees trade as a zero-sum game. His

objective seems to be to deter U.S. companies from investing in Mexico or

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