USMCA Vote Won't Happen Yet This Year

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R., Ky., has put to rest speculation that the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) could be voted on yet this year, indicating that there isn't enough time for the steps to be completed relative to getting the pact through Congress."That will be a next year issue because the process we have to go through doesn't allow that to come up before the end of this year," he told Bloomberg in an interview Tuesday.Some lawmakers had signaled they hoped a vote on the package could be done yet this year, perhaps in a lame-duck session of Congress. But McConnell's statement fits with what most trade experts have agreed -- a vote on the USMCA will be something that will take place in 2019.