WASHINGTON – The Senate passed the United States Mexico Canada Agreement today in a 89 to 10 vote. The agreement takes effect if President Trump signs the law and Canada approves the agreement.
“If this new trade pact is signed into law by President Trump and approved by Canada, it will stop the previous trade arbitration process that enabled abusive corporations to skirt labor laws and protections for poor people.
“The new agreement removes harmful language that in past trade agreements prevented vulnerable people from accessing medicines.
“I commend the agreement from stopping predatory hedge funds from collecting on old bad debts.”
Read Jubilee USA’s statement with the Catholic, Episcopalian, United Methodist, Presbyterian, Evangelical Lutheran and United Church of Christ Churches calling on the US Government to enact trade agreements that protect vulnerable people here
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