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Republicans pushed their skinny budget plan through the Senate early Friday after a nearly 10-hour vote-a-rama that allowed Democrats to force votes on a variety of concerns, including food costs, bird flu and the recent mass firings of government workers. The Senate debate highlighted some major GOP fault lines over spending cuts.

President Donald Trump told reporters in the Oval Office Friday that there is nothing Mexico, Canada and China can do to avoid new tariffs slated to go into effect Saturday, and suggested the rates could eventually increase. The American Farm Bureau Federation appealed to Trump for a targeted approach with specific exemptions for fuel and fertilizer imports.

The Senate Agriculture Committee is welcoming four new members to the panel, including Democrat Adam Schiff of California, who will be the first senator from the Golden State to serve on the committee since the 1980s.