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Not US, MCA; Pride over Sustenance; Everyone's Politician

Not US, MCA Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has tabled the USMCA agreement in Parliament, and Mexican President André Manuel López Obrador says he will be sending it to his country’s Senate. Today the White House sent to the Congress the draft Statement of Administrative Action that triggers the start of the fast track process for USMCA’s consideration, which House Speaker Nancy Pelosi warned Donald Trump not to do. It is unclear whether House Democrats were going to give Donald Trump the satisfaction of USMCA being ratified, but ramming it down the throat of the ruling majority in the lower body might not be any more certain of an outcome.   Pride over Sustenance North Korea has reportedly been hit...

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