Washington • House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Tuesday announced agreement on a modified North American trade pact, handing President Donald Trump a major Capitol Hill win on the same day that Democrats announced their impeachment charges against him.
The California Democrat said the revamped U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement is a significant improvement over the original North American Free Trade Agreement, crediting Democratic negotiators for winning stronger provisions on enforcing the agreement.
"There is no question of course that this trade agreement is much better than NAFTA," Pelosi said in announcing the agreement, saying the pact is "infinitely better than what was initially proposed by the administration.