“Don’t even get me started on how disgraced must these law firms feel now, how disgraced must these companies that are sucking up to him, that are giving him tens of millions of dollars for access? Do you know what’s going to happen? Do you know how this ends? Do you know how collaborators with this country are going to feel toward collaborators with this regime? Maybe you need to go in history and see what happened in August of 1944 after Paris was liberated. They didn’t take very kindly to the collaborators. No, it was not a very pretty sight in the streets of Paris.”

— Jame Carville, on his podcast.

“Capitol Hill Republicans, corporate America and White House allies are terrified about what’s next in President Donald Trump’s escalating trade war. But they fear Trump’s wrath even more,” Politico reports.

“Republican lawmakers are signaling they’re willing to tolerate the pain for now, despite the economic fallout back home. Lobbyists, who are quietly prodding the same lawmakers to defend their interests, don’t want to have a target on their back — or their clients’. Even some Trump world confidantes, alarmed about the tariffs’ impact, are hoping someone else intervenes.”

Said one operative: “There is zero incentive for any company or brand to be remotely critical of this administration. It destroys your ability to work with the White House and advance your policies, period.”

“White House spring garden tours scheduled Saturday were postponed in anticipation of large-scale anti-President Trump protests,” Axios reports.

“The mass movement is catching the eye of the Trump administration before demonstrators even take to the streets.”

Punchbowl News: “The climate in Washington and across the country — both politically and economically — is making it much more difficult for Republicans to pass a massive tax-and-cut plan. Equity markets are getting rocked. Economists are already saying that a recession is possible. It will be difficult for Republicans to make the case that they should cut government spending. One almost wonders if the president should’ve waited on his tariff regime until after the reconciliation bill was passed.”

“The last two weeks especially – with Trump’s tariff frenzy and the Signal scandal dominating – have left Senate Republicans exhausted and more grumpy than usual during their closed-door meetings, per our conversations with GOP senators this week.”

“And for the budget reconciliation package, the costs of failure could not be higher. A vast majority of Americans would see a tax increase. Remember, too, that Republicans are trying to use the legislation to raise the debt limit, which likely needs to be done by late spring or early summer.”