KEY POINTS
- The White House plans to send its replacement for the North American Free Trade Agreement to Congress after Sept. 1, sources say.
- The move sets up a vote on President Donald Trump’s United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement by the end of the year.
- The White House and Office of the U.S. Trade Representative are split over how aggressively to push House Democrats to approve the deal.
The White House plans to send its replacement for the North American Free Trade Agreement to Congress after Sept. 1, setting up a vote by the end of the year, sources told CNBC.
The White House could submit the bill to Congress as soon as this week to start the approval process. House Democrats are meeting in working groups to hammer out issues with the existing agreement.
But the White House and Office of the U.S. Trade Representative disagree over how aggressive a strategy to pursue in getting the deal through Congress, a senior administration official and two senior GOP aides said.
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