Just hours after President Donald Trump announced massive new tariffs on nearly all imports to the United States, a bipartisan group of senators made the first push to stop the most nonsensical part of Trump's global trade war.

The Senate passed a resolution on Wednesday aiming to block President Trump from imposing tariffs on Canadian goods. 

The measure cleared the upper chamber in a 51-48 vote, with a handful of Republicans joining all Democrats in support of the resolution, which seeks to terminate the national emergency on fentanyl smuggling that Trump declared in February and is using to impose sweeping levies on imports from north of the border. 

The US Senate has confirmed President Donald Trump's nominee Matt Whitaker to be the US ambassador to NATO, at a time of growing concern about Washington’s commitment to the defence alliance.

Having served in the Justice Department during Trump's first administration, Whitaker comes to the role with a background in law enforcement rather than foreign policy or national security.

He was confirmed along party lines by a 52-45 vote.

Update: Cory Booker has now delivered the longest speech in a chamber in history – beating Strom Thurmond’s record.

Democrat Senator Cory Booker (NJ) has been ranting about President Trump and Elon Musk from the senate floor for 24 hours and counting.

A bug-eyed Booker started his marathon rant on Monday evening and he’s still droning on about President Trump as of Tuesday afternoon.

Sen. Cory Booker's (D-N.J.) record marathon speech on the Senate floor won the floundering Democratic Party something it has desperately needed in the Trump era: attention and the applause of its base.

The big picture: Top Democrats believe they are in their deepest hole in nearly 50 years after losing the White House, Senate and House, and the party's base has grown impatient with leaders who haven't countered President Trump more aggressively.

Senate Republicans are facing crunch time on a long-overdue budget resolution, which has divided their conference over the possibility of cutting Medicaid and adding language to increase the debt ceiling by as much as $5 trillion.

Whether they move on the bill this week could depend largely on a key ruling from Senate parliamentarian Elizabeth MacDonough.

Republican senators are warning that any conversation taking place between senior Trump administration officials over the commercial app, Signal, needs to be preserved to determine whether classified information was compromised and to comply with the Federal Records Act.

The Senate voted to cancel a rule finalized under former President Joe Biden that capped overdraft fees at large banks and credit unions.

The Senate voted 52-48 on Thursday to pass the joint resolution, introduced by Banking Committee Chairman Tim Scott (R-SC), that would rescind the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau rule. The resolution passed through the Congressional Review Act, a special legislative process to bypass the filibuster, allowing a simple majority vote in both chambers to cancel regulations.

The U.S. Senate just advanced a resolution on a party-line vote to give banks more leeway to charge customers exorbitant fees if they don't have enough money in their accounts.