President Donald Trump's new trade deal with Mexico and Canada won't get a vote in Congress this year, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said.

“My trade advisers says you can't possibly do it under the various steps that we have to go through. I had not heard that it might be possible to address it this year,” McConnell said in an interview with Bloomberg News Tuesday in Washington.

McConnell said he has not had conversations with the White House about wrapping it up this year. “There's no question this will be on the top of the agenda” next year, he said.

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