<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class=""><a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/480518-sanders-vows-to-renegotiate-disastrous-north-american-trade-deal" class="">https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/480518-sanders-vows-to-renegotiate-disastrous-north-american-trade-deal</a></div><div class=""><h1 class="title" id="page-title">Sanders vows to renegotiate 'disastrous' North American trade deal</h1>
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By <a href="https://thehill.com/author/rebecca-klar" title="All articles by Rebecca Klar" class="">Rebecca Klar</a> - <span class="submitted-date">01/29/20 01:16 PM EST</span></span></div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) vowed to “immediately” renegotiate a North American trade deal that he called an “absolute disaster” should he be elected president in 2020. <br class=""><br class="">Sanders issued his statement Wednesday, shortly after President Trump signed the deal that Sanders has repeatedly criticized. <br class=""><br class="">"As the only leading presidential candidate to oppose Trump’s NAFTA 2.0, I am pledging today that upon being sworn in as president, I will immediately begin renegotiating this disastrous deal to combat climate change, stop the outsourcing of American jobs and end the destructive race to the bottom,” Sanders said in a statement, referring to the North American Free Trade Agreement, which the new trade deal replaced. <br class=""><br class="">Sanders was one of 10 senators, and the only Democratic presidential candidate, to vote against the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA). He cited a lack of protection for American workers and the environment as reasons for his opposition. <br class=""><br class="">“It does not even mention the words 'climate change', the most existential threat facing our planet,” Sanders added in his Wednesday statement. "We need a trade policy that works for the working class and improves the environment. And that's exactly what I will fight for as president."<br class=""><br class="">Sanders’s opposition to the bill is one of his key differences between himself and fellow progressive Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), another top competitor in the presidential primary. Warren had initially opposed the plan, but later announced support for the renegotiated version that she said made “improvements” to Trump’s original proposal.</div><br class=""><div class="">
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