The Tension Between the Left and the Right in Trade Agreements

Lighthizer was criticized by the progressive part of the Democratic Party for wanting to include into the US MCA agreement a provision that equated what's known as section 230 in US law. "The problem that the left wing has is that they don't like US law," he says. Lighthizer was doing exactly what Congress has told USTRs for 30 years to do, which is to get US law into our trade agreements and make our trade agreements as close to US law as we can as we can.