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My hunch is McConnell's waiting for Senate's former Trade Promotion Authority (TPA) to expire. GOPe previously flipped TPA threshold to require 2/3rds of Senate to vote against trade deal or it passes (2015). Now McConnell wants 2/3rds to vote *for* USMCA or it fails.
TPA is one of those weedy Senate constructs that highlights how McConnell is a Big Club crook and tricks people.
When the crony Chamber of Commerce wanted TPP (Trans-Pacific Partnership) they needed to develop a scheme to help Obama get it passed so Mitch created a system where the required two-thirds senate approval process was flipped and with TPA now two-thirds were required to block.
Trade Promotion Authority (TPA) was the vehicle that was created by Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell to allow TPP to pass with only 34 votes in the Senate..... [because TPP was/is a Wall Street trade construct.]
The BIG CLUB (both wings of uniparty) needed to advance their Wall Street interests, and yet they knew they couldn't overcome the 2/3rds hurdle in the Senate..... so they created TPA to flip the constitutional requirements for passage.
Remember, despite the democrat base being against it, Hillary Clinton supported the Trans Pacific Partnership... so TPA was created for both Obama and/or Clinton to use to pull the U.S. into the Wall Street trade deal. The UniParty didn't expect Trump to win. 
When Trump won, the McConnell/Ryan/Donohue "TPA scheme" went from being a legislative trick to benefit Wall Street globalists (against the U.S. workers), to being a tool that Trump could use to protect U.S. workers and defeat the Wall Street Globalists.
With TPA in place Trump only needs 34 Senate votes to support the USMCA (New Nafta) and/or any U.S-China trade agreement. The ability to use their TPA scheme is now against the interests of Mitch McConnell, Tom Donohue, Wall Street and the Big Club.
Now McConnell needs to find a way to get rid of his TPA scheme and require his adversary, President Trump, to go back to the old way of needing two-thirds for approval.
McConnell, Schumer, Pelosi, McCarthy (all leadership of both parties, the entire UniParty) are all aligned as beneficiaries of massive multinational Wall Street corporate payments, ie. The big club. They are paid to block Trump's trade deals.
U.S. Chamber of Commerce President Tom Donohue is the man who pays the leadership of both parties to support the Multinational Wall Street agenda. Donohue pays for influence over trade deals. Donohue HATES Trump !!
Donohue hates Trump because President Trump doesn't allow Donohue to write the language inside the trade deals. Reagan, Bush, Clinton, Bush, and Obama all took massive $$$$ and subcontracted the U.S. CoC to actually negotiate & write the terms and language for trade deals.
President Trump doesn't let the U.S. Chamber of Commerce (Dohonue) write the trade deal language. Trump cut them, and their influence, out completely. This means the Donohues former business model, payments by Wall Street to the U.S. CoC, no longer works.
And because there are "Trillions of Dollars At Stake", that's why there is such massive corporate and multinational financial opposition to President Trump.
Simultaneously, Mitch McConnell and the BIG CLUB cannot get as much lobbying money from Tom Donohue because his influence is lessened. So Donohue is paying Mitch to work on eliminating Trump and getting back to the business of allowing corporations to control DC outcomes.
Once you understand this scheme, you understand the underpinnings of everything that happens in opposition to Trump. THIS, the financial side of THIS, is the root of all opposition. This is the *REAL* fight over who controls the U.S. economy.
This is how legislators become millionaires on $170k salaries. This is the drain plug in the swamp. This is the center. This quid-pro-quo process is the operating system.
Once you see the strings on Tom Donohue's marionettes you can never go back to a time where you watched the DC pantomime and didn't notice them.
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Here's a good middle-of-road TPA explainer: thebalance.com/trade-promotio…
