Article snippet: Progressive lawmakers and some labor unions are facing internal divisions over whether to support MORE's proposed update to a North American trade agreement. House Democratic leaders this past week announced a deal to pass Trump's revamp of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) after six months of intense, secretive negotiations. Speaker MORE (D-Calif.) and other Democrats touted victories in securing tougher labor law enforcement procedures in Mexico, tightening environmental restrictions and eliminating legal protections for certain drugs in defiance of the powerful pharmaceutical lobby. Those concessions were enough to secure the support of the AFL-CIO, the largest U.S. labor federation and a fierce critic of the original NAFTA. When AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka hailed “an agreement that working people can proudly support,” he cleared the way for Democrats to back Trump’s deal known as the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA). But that doesn’t mean all Democrats and unions are going along happily. “We haven't spent enough time putting together the apparatus of how you enforce this and who's responsible for enforcing it,” said Rep. MORE (D-N.J.), a fierce critic of trade deals. “I don't trust what’s been written.” Rep. MORE (D-Conn.), a trade skeptic and member of the Democratic USMCA negotiating team, said the caucus’s chief objective was “to staunch the outsourcing,” citing the vast industrial job losses in her district. Despite the new changes ... Link to the full article to read more