Republican in Congress working on plan for Trump to negotiate control of Panama Canal

The hospital ship USNS Comfort transits the Panama Canal at the Miraflores locks. (U.S. Navy photo by Lt. Cmdr. Heidi Lenzini)

Hakeem Jeffries, the Democrats’ failed candidate for House speaker, has mocked a Republican plan, already voiced by President-elect Donald Trump, that would provide for the United States again to be in charge of the Panama Canal, which originally was built by America.

Jeffries claimed, according to a report from the Washington Examiner, that, “House Democrats believe...