Senator Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.) sent a letter to U.S. Trade Ambassador Greer highlighting Nevada’s priorities and pushing for the inclusion of two of her bipartisan bills.
Push for the inclusion of bipartisan bills supporting travel, tourism, and supply chain security in the 2026 USMCA review.
Occurrences
Today, U.S. Senators Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.) and Jerry Moran (R-Kan.) introduced the USMCA Travel and Tourism Resiliency Act to ensure that the United States is working with Canada and Mexico, America’s two largest trading partners, to support our travel and tourism industry... The USMCA Travel and Tourism Resiliency Act would require that the U.S. Trade Representative advocate for the establishment of a Travel and Tourism Trade Working Group as part of the upcoming Joint Review of the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA).
Evidence
Ahead of the July 2026 review of the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA), Senator Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.) sent a letter to U.S. Trade Ambassador Greer highlighting Nevada’s priorities and pushing for the inclusion of two of her bipartisan bills. In the letter, she urges Ambassador Greer to focus on actions that will strengthen the trade agreement while encouraging more collaboration on travel and tourism, as well as on actions to curb the risk of investments by the Chinese Communist Party in North American supply chains.
U.S. Senators Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.) and Jerry Moran (R-Kan.) introduced the USMCA Travel and Tourism Resiliency Act to ensure that the United States is working with Canada and Mexico, America’s two largest trading partners, to support our travel and tourism industry.
U.S. Senator Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.) cosponsored bipartisan legislation to restore full funding for Brand USA, a critical program that helps drive international tourism, after the Republican tax law slashed the program’s funding by 80 percent.
U.S. Senators Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.), Markwayne Mullin (R-Okla.), and Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) introduced legislation to strengthen the domestic supply chain for rare earth magnets, which are critical components of cell phones, computers, defense systems, and vehicles, but are almost exclusively made in China.
U.S. Senator Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.) introduced legislation to strengthen border security by helping U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) better integrate innovative technologies like artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning, infrared sensing, and nanotechnology at the border.
U.S. Senators Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.) and Kevin Cramer (R-N.D.) along with U.S. House of Representatives Steven Horsford (D-Nev.-04), Darin LaHood (R-Ill.-04), and Jimmy Panetta (D-Calif.-20) unveiled the Hospitality and Commerce Job Recovery Act of 2021, legislation that would provide comprehensive relief and recovery measures for the convention, trade show, entertainment, travel and hospitality industries and their workers.
On June 3, 2026, Cortez Masto joined a letter opposing social-media screening for tourists; the release says that, ahead of the July 2026 USMCA review, she urged Trade Representative Greer to strengthen the agreement while encouraging collaboration on travel and tourism.
GovInfo lists S. 3787 as introduced on February 5, 2026, with the last action date also listed as February 5, 2026; the action recorded is that the bill was introduced, read twice, and referred to the Committee on Finance.
The visible official press-release index for the lookback period lists items from June 23 through July 2, 2026, including Job Corps, citizenship, infrastructure funding, birthright citizenship, veterans fraud, TPS, voting by mail, and PILT payments; it does not list a new USMCA-review, travel-and-tourism, or supply-chain-security announcement in that window.
Cortez Masto wrote that she had introduced the USMCA Travel and Tourism Resiliency Act and urged USTR to make a Travel and Tourism Trade Working Group an explicit objective in the joint review; she also cited S. 2861 and urged USTR to incorporate coordinated investment screening as a formal joint-review negotiating objective.
Cortez Masto's office said that ahead of the July 2026 USMCA review she sent a letter to USTR Greer pushing for inclusion of two bipartisan bills, one on a Travel and Tourism Trade Working Group and one on North American alignment against harmful Chinese investment in supply chains.
The bill text would direct the U.S. Trade Representative, during the first joint review after enactment, to advocate for creation of a Travel and Tourism Trade Working Group under USMCA. The draft shown was introduced by Cortez Masto and referred to committee.
Cortez Masto and McCormick introduced the Protecting the USMCA from Harmful Chinese Investment Act to make North American foreign-investment-screening alignment a USMCA joint-review negotiating objective and to coordinate against risks from nonmarket-economy-country investments.
CRS states the first USMCA joint review was scheduled to begin July 1, 2026; it says the scope and process remained unclear and lists USTR-highlighted topics such as dairy, digital services, alcohol distribution, agriculture, labor, energy, rules of origin, and tariffs, not Cortez Masto's later travel/tourism or investment-screening proposals.
Assessments
The promise was framed as an advocacy commitment to push for inclusion of bipartisan travel, tourism, and supply-chain-security bills in the 2026 USMCA review, not to guarantee adoption. During the same Senate term, Cortez Masto introduced the relevant bipartisan proposals and sent a March 30, 2026 letter to USTR Greer explicitly urging that both the Travel and Tourism Trade Working Group objective and coordinated investment-screening/supply-chain-security objective be included in the USMCA joint review. Later evidence shows continued pressure ahead of the July 2026 review. There is no evidence the proposals were adopted, but adoption was not the promised outcome.
Cortez Masto clearly made a serious, on-the-record push in 2026 by introducing bipartisan bills on travel/tourism and supply-chain security and then urging their inclusion in the upcoming USMCA review. But the evidence only shows introduction, referral, and lobbying; it does not show that the bills were actually included in the review or enacted. Under the campaign-credit rules, that is a serious attempt that fell short of delivering the promised outcome.
Senator Cortez Masto actively introduced and advocated for bipartisan bills and initiatives supporting travel, tourism, and supply chain security, and communicated these priorities ahead of the 2026 USMCA review. However, there is no evidence the bills were included in the USMCA review or that their provisions were formally adopted in the agreement. The promise was to push for inclusion, and substantial, bipartisan legislative and advocacy efforts were made, but the final outcome—successful inclusion—has not been demonstrated.