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Today, Explained

It’s hard to ratify U-S-M-C-A

Today, Explained

Vox

Politics, Daily News, News

4.310.3K Ratings

🗓️ 3 June 2019

⏱️ 20 minutes

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President Trump wants his NAFTA replacement deal ratified. But President Trump appears to be standing in the way. (Transcript here.) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:04.4

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0:08.9

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0:30.5

Remember NAFTA?

0:32.0

All the resources of the Clip and Administration are focused now on getting the house to vote

0:37.3

for the North American Free Trade Agreement and the sound of arms being twisted is everywhere

0:42.7

in Washington tonight.

0:44.0

Remember how the President wanted to get rid of it?

0:46.4

I have long contended that NAFTA was perhaps the worst trade deal ever made.

0:51.7

Remember how he did get rid of it?

0:53.9

USMCA, right?

0:55.9

Like YMCA.

0:57.9

Remember, if you have a problem remembering it, just think of the song YMCA.

1:02.9

We love that song.

1:04.5

Now the new NAFTA, the USMCA, is somehow in trouble and President Trump is somehow

1:12.6

right in the middle of it.

1:14.0

It's not going great.

1:15.4

Jent Kirby has been writing about this particular mess for Vox.

1:19.0

After the three leaders signed it back in November, it basically stalled because the

1:25.3

Trump administration had kept steel and aluminum tariffs on Canada and Mexico.

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