Cruz deregulation plan in NAFTA would circumvent Democrats
WASHINGTON – With negotiations to modernize NAFTA coming to a head, Texas Republican Ted Cruz and some of his conservative Senate allies have been pushing the Trump administration to use the trade pact as a way of getting around Democratic objections to the GOP's broader deregulation agenda.
But despite a GOP consensus on reducing business regulation of all kinds, Cruz's gambit appears to be getting little buy-in from Republican leaders on trade – including some key Texas Republicans – who worry that it could blow up a final trade deal with Mexico and Canada.
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