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Good morning, everyone. I'm Playbook Deputy Editor Zach Stanton. It's Friday, April 11th,

and here's what's surviving the day. As the Trump administration bulldozes through policy

norms and implements its agenda, it is encountering real challenges on several different fronts.

And that's the throughline of several

major stories today. There's the courts. Last night, the Supreme Court made a ruling requiring

the Trump administration to facilitate the return of Kilmar Abrago Garcia. He is the Maryland man

who last month was deported and sent to a notorious mega-prison in El Salvador due to an

administrative error on the part of the U.S.

federal government. Now, the High Court's ruling doesn't explicitly mention bringing Abrago Garcia

back to the United States, but it leaves in place the bulk of a judicial order that

specifically required his return to the United States. We don't yet know the timeline for his return,

but Salvadoran President Naib Buckele is slated to visit President Donald Trump at the White House on Monday. Then there's the

markets. After rallying on Wednesday in the economic equivalent of a sigh of relief, the markets

continued their fall on Thursday. Their decline speeding after 11 a.m. when the Trump

White House announced that the tariffs on China will be 145 percent, not the 125 percent level the

president previously stated. And that sets the table for turbulent times ahead economically.

Whether a recession arrives largely depends on whether Trump backs down even further

in the coming weeks on the slate of tariffs affecting other nations, as our own Sudibretti

writes for Politico magazine. And then, of course, there's political reality. As the tariffs

continue to reshape the economy, they're also reshaping the outlook for our

elections. And as the threat of a recession looms, Democrats see a tantalizing political opportunity to take on

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