President Trump Says Mexico Trade Deal Near; NAFTA Hurdles Seen Easing

President Donald Trump said on Saturday that the United States could reach a ‘big Trade Agreement’ with Mexico soon,” David Lawder and Sharay Angulo report for Reuters. “The U.S.-Mexico talks for weeks focused on crafting new rules for the automotive industry, which Trump has put at the center of his drive to rework the 24-year-old deal.”

President Trump tweeted on Saturday that the U.S. “relationship with Mexico is getting closer by the hour.” The White House will make an announcement regarding trade at 11 a.m. ET this morning.

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“Last week's announcement from the Trump administration, on the EPA’s new Affordable Clean Energy Plan to replace the Clean Power Plan, is another welcome addition to President Trump’s list of promises fulfilled that benefit American workers,” Rep. Steve Scalise (R-LA) writes in the Washington Examiner. “In just the two years working with Trump, we have been able to end the war on American energy.”

In the New York Post, Brian Allen Benczkowski writes that “the removal to Germany last week of Jakiw Palij, a longtime Queens resident and former Nazi SS labor-camp guard, is a triumph of justice and accountability for the victims of Nazi atrocities.” The Trump Administration ignored the tough odds and “commenced intense discussions with the German government to secure Palij’s readmission.”

“For more than a half-century, a majority of the U.S. Supreme Court has rewritten the Constitution under the guise of interpreting it,” Rep. Tom Marino (R-PA) writes in the Williamsport Sun-Gazette. Judge Brett Kavanaugh is “is an independent judge and the judge we need to fill this critical opening on the high court.”

“ICE has become unjustly demonized in highly partisan politics,” Los Alamitos, California, Mayor Troy Edgar writes in the Orange County Register. “ICE has consistently prioritized and apprehended unlawfully present aliens within cities that have been arrested for committing a crime . . . Law and order is not a partisan issue.”

“President Trump’s ‘Space Force’ proposal would help prevent the U.S. energy grid from going dark in an emergency or an attack, NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine said in an exclusive interview with the Washington Examiner,” John Siciliano reports. “Bridenstine argued that a disruption of America’s satellite assets would pose an ‘existential threat’ to the grid, meaning that a Space Force is needed more than ever.”