Cornyn warns administration not to take Congress for granted on NAFTA

摘要

Senate Majority Whip John Cornyn (R-TX) on Monday said U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer and his boss should not assume a new North American Free Trade Agreement will sail through Congress even if negotiations produce an updated pact - and added that he hoped the Trump administration would drop some of its controversial proposals to give the deal a better chance of passage. "I don't think it's something that the trade representative and the administration should take for granted," Cornyn said after a field hearing on NAFTA in San Antonio, TX, when asked about the chances that Congress would be able to pass a new NAFTA.