; Whereas by failing to condition trade benefits on countries enforcing strong labor and environmental standards, NAFTA incentivized corporations’ offshoring of jobs and exploiting of workers across North America in a race to the bottom, and firms that remained in the United States faced unfair competition from imports subsidized through social dumping; Whereas NAFTA’s labor and environmental terms were included in unenforceable side agreements, but even more recent agreements’ labor and environmental terms included in core texts have also failed to change actual practice because they have not been sufficiently enforced; Whereas NAFTA was also the first United States trade agreement to include special privileges for investors and the Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) process that make it less risky for employers to relocate jobs offshore, while simultaneously threatening democratic policymaking at home and abroad; Whereas corporations have used NAFTA’s ISDS process to challenge bans on toxic chemicals, the decisions of environmental review panels, court rulings that support access to affordable medicines, and protections for the climate, and corporations have extracted more than $370,000,000 from governments in NAFTA ISDS cases, while pending NAFTA claims total more than $50,000,000,000; Whereas NAFTA was negotiated in an opaque process in which corporations were granted undue influence while the United States public was prevented from providing input; and Whereas President Donald Trump campaigned on the promise of initiating negotiations for a NAFTA replacement agreement within the first 100 days of taking office, and pledged to withdraw the United States from NAFTA if he could not make it much better for working people: Now, therefore, be it