Meltdowns and touchdowns: How the U.S. scored a Canada-Mexico trade deal

WASHINGTON - Revising the U.S.-Mexico-Canada trade agreement took a year of acrimonious talks among Democrats, the chief U.S. negotiator and a labor union president - and may have set a world record for phones being slammed down in anger, according to one negotiator.

“These were intense, argumentative, angry negotiations. I mean this got really hot on a number of occasions,” House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard Neal told reporters on Tuesday at a post-deal briefing attended by key legislators in the talks. Neal said he spent the better part of the weekend on the phone, first with Lighthizer, then repeatedly with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who said a deal was getting close.Then, just as he was watching his beloved New England Patriots football team face off against the Kansas City Chiefs, with the Patriots driving toward a touchdown, the phone rang again.

A second source said the House Democratic working group that negotiated with Lighthizer was often at odds internally over competing priorities and whether the deal was even worth fighting for.

How trump did, you meant.

More fake propaganda and bs promoting the do nothing democrats. This agreement sat on Pelosi desk for nearly 2 years and she didnt lift a finger for it. Last Wednesday she said on CNN so much work was left to do they didnt have time for it, and now some miraculous 'hard work'.

How? Donald Trump's that how.

One of the most pointless articles ever written. Speaks of the huge changes and negotiations yet mentions zero changes. clickbait + lazy writing all at once. Don’t waste your time.

Thank you Trump. Another win!

Trump initiated this new trade agreement and made it happen. MAGA

Weird, didn’t mention President Trump in your article.

No thank to the do nothing dems all thank to trump and his art of the deal.

What unfortunate, misleading, obvious bias. Canada didn't 'score' a deal? Mexico didn't 'score' a deal? Spiking the football? As if no one else was involved? This is simplistic, utterly slanted goo.

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