Trump, Pelosi trade barbs on Mexico migration, USMCA trade deal
President Donald Trump on Saturday blamed Democrats after a tumultuous week for trade and the broader USMCA deal negotiations following the president's threat to impose tariffs on Mexico over migration at the U.S. southern border.
"Nervous Nancy Pelosi & the Democrat House are getting nothing done. Perhaps they could lead the way with the USMCA, the spectacular & very popular new Trade Deal that replaces NAFTA, the worst Trade Deal in the history of the U.S.A. Great for our Farmers, Manufacturers & Unions!" Trump wrote on Twitter.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi shot back in a statement criticizing the deal struck Friday evening between the U.S. and Mexico, under which Mexico said it would send 6,000 troops from its National Guard to the country’s southern border with Guatemala, a move aimed at cutting off the flow of migrants bound for the U.S.
“Threats and temper tantrums are no way to negotiate foreign policy,” the speaker said, also taking aim at the administration's stance on Mexico holding asylum seekers on its own soil and its "failing to address the root causes of Central American migration."
The speaker also said Trump "undermined America’s preeminent leadership role in the world by recklessly threatening to impose tariffs."
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