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Happy Tuesday. Sens. Bob Corker, Jeff Flake and Utah’s Orrin Hatch — some of President Donald Trump’s fiercest GOP critics on trade — are retiring from the Senate at the end of this year. But Pat Toomey, the conservative Pennsylvania senator, has emerged as Trump’s sharpest antagonist on trade policy — pushing legislation with Corker to take back Congress’ power over trade deals and straining to defend NAFTA from the erratic president.