Senate Democrats unveiled a slate of trade policy proposals aimed at benefiting American manufacturers and workers on Wednesday, adding to the partys new economic agenda, which its calling A Better Deal .

The proposals, announced by Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) and five senators from manufacturing-heavy states, include plans to create a new international trade prosecutor to fight foreign countries alleged violations of trade agreements; establish a new board to review how foreign purchases of American companies will impact American jobs; penalize federal contractors that offshore domestic jobs; and renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement, or NAFTA.

Crucially, the press conference offered Senate Democrats an opportunity to show their determination not to be outflanked by President Donald Trump on trade policy, an issue that helped Trump pick up Democratic votes in Rust Belt states.

Nothing is more central to creating jobs and increasing take home pay, than rewriting our backward trade laws that have put foreign workers ahead of American workers, that have put big multinational corporations ahead of the needs of hardworking average American families, Schumer said.

Schumer fused some of the anti-corporate rhetoric more common in Democratic speeches with a smattering of the nationalist tropes Trump has championed. At the start of his remarks, for example, Schumer praised his assembled colleagues for putting American workers first.

He later dubbed China rapacious for helping its corporations and investors gobble up American companies even as it failed to reciprocate by letting in American products like Hollywood films.

Schumers vow to put American workers first arguably echoed Trumps promise to put America First in his inaugural address.

At the press conference, the senators made overtures to Republicans to collaborate on various pieces of legislation, including a bill Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis.) introduced in March that would require American-made steel and iron to be used in drinking water infrastructure projects.

We need Republicans to stand with us, and with our manufacturers and with American workers, Baldwin said.

Even Baldwins reference to her own Buy America bill, however, was an opportunity to call out Republicans for failing to uphold President Trumps promises to pursue trade policies aimed at helping American workers. Trump said in April that he supported Baldwins legislation .

Yet House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) stripped similar language out of a water bill last year, a development Baldwin attributed to the fact that foreign steel companies bought Washington lobbyists to kill it. (At the time, Ryan argued that the provision could unduly obstruct companies from getting federal contracts.)

Congressional Republican leadership continues to stand in the way. America and their workers deserve a solid commitment from us on a strong Buy America standard that rewards their hard work, Baldwin said.

The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment on whether Trump planned to demand that congressional Republicans pass the bill.