{"id":16662,"date":"2018-08-30T12:51:42","date_gmt":"2018-08-30T16:51:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jamiegraymusic.com\/wordpress\/?p=16662"},"modified":"2018-08-30T12:51:42","modified_gmt":"2018-08-30T16:51:42","slug":"u-s-mexico-trade-pact-faces-scrutiny-from-lawmakers-at-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jamiegraymusic.com\/wordpress\/2018\/08\/u-s-mexico-trade-pact-faces-scrutiny-from-lawmakers-at-home\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S.-Mexico Trade Pact Faces Scrutiny From Lawmakers at Home"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Here’s a fun fact for my friends who don’t actually know how our government works: the president cannot make any trade agreement. That power is reserved to Congress. Not sure about withdrawing from such an agreement…logic says that’s under Congressional purvey as well, but on this I admit to ignorance.
\nYes…I could Google it, but where’s the fun in that when I can just stir the pot online until someone else does it for me and tells me I’m wrong…or right?<\/p>\n

The Article ‘U.S.-Mexico Trade Pact Faces Scrutiny From Lawmakers at Home’ originally appeared on https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/u-s-mexico-trade-pact-faces-scrutiny-from-lawmakers-at-home-1535621400<\/a>
\nJamie’s comments are his own.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here’s a fun fact for my friends who don’t actually know how our government works: the president cannot make any trade agreement. That power is reserved to Congress. Not sure about withdrawing from such an agreement…logic says that’s under Congressional purvey as well, but on this I admit to ignorance. Yes…I could Google it, but […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[582,586,590,589,565,587,588,585,591,456],"tags":[593,597,596,96,598,594,595,592,523,33],"class_list":["post-16662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-2","category-editorial-2","category-imho","category-imo","category-jamiegray","category-moregray","category-myopinion","category-opinion-3","category-sharedlink","category-jamie-gray","tag-editorial","tag-imho-blogger","tag-imo","tag-jamiegray","tag-link","tag-moregray","tag-myopinion","tag-opinion","tag-blog","tag-jamie-gray"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":16564,"url":"https:\/\/jamiegraymusic.com\/wordpress\/2018\/07\/manhattan-da-announces-end-of-needless-criminalization-of-pot-smoking\/","url_meta":{"origin":16662,"position":0},"title":"Manhattan DA announces end of ‘needless criminalization of pot smoking’","date":"July 31, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Smoking weed in NYC is now LEGIT. 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