From the daily newsletter: how the Trump Administration is threatening to push the Senate to obsolescence—and whether the Senator Majority Leader will try to save it.

While Democratic lawmakers have been outspoken in their opposition to the steep new tariffs President Donald Trump is pushing, many of their GOP counterparts are reluctant to openly criticize Trump — even if they are privately worried about the effect tariffs could have.

An invite from the White House calls it a "Make America Wealthy Again Event". The BBC hit the streets of New York City to hear from consumers on the eve of Trump's tariff policy rollout, which he's self-titled "Liberation Day".

Trump said in a social media post that the U.S. is "making progress to end this terrible Fentanyl Crisis" that he claims is coming from Canada, and said that "Republicans in the Senate MUST vote to keep the National Emergency in place, so we can finish the job, and end the scourge."

Analysis: Trump hands Democrats a strategic wedge to divide the GOP as he provokes a battle with the courts, writes John Bowden

That would be a good one, I’d like that,” President Donald Trump said of a hypothetical in which he ran against former President Barack Obama for a third term.

Senate Republicans are expected to vote on a budget blueprint this week to advance President Donald Trump’s first-year legislative priorities while saving key bill details for later. Republican leadership in the chamber appears eager to make headway in enacting the president’s tax and spending priorities through the budget reconciliation process,