On Politics: Trump’s $12 Billion Border Request

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Good Monday morning. Here are some of the stories making news in Washington and politics today.

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• President Trump plans to begin a fresh effort on Monday to pressure Congress to pay for a border wall. He is expected to request $8.6 billion in his annual budget proposal, and another $3.6 billion to replenish military construction funds he has diverted to begin work on the wall. But with Democrats in control of the House, his plan is likely dead on arrival.

• The relationship between Mr. Trump and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel has no precedent in their countries’ history, but it has deep parallels in their politics and struggles with scandal. As an Israeli election approaches, is this the last hurrah?

• After last week’s intraparty fight over Representative Ilhan Omar, many Democrats worry that a major response will now be required every time a member transgresses the ill-defined rules of rhetorical decorum.

• Every House Democrat voted for a broadly worded resolution condemning “hateful expressions of intolerance,” but 23 Republicans voted no. Here’s why they said they did it.

• The leading Democratic candidates for president have largely embraced progressive ideas on health care, taxes, the environment and Middle East policy. That has unnerved moderates, who fear the party could fritter away its chances of beating Mr. Trump by careening over a liberal cliff.

• A poll of likely Iowa caucusgoers released this weekend found Joe Biden atop the field of potential 2020 candidates, followed closely by Senator Bernie Sanders.

• For decades, many women in American politics, like Hillary Clinton, followed in the footsteps of a husband or father. But none of the six women running for president come from powerful political families.

• Even as the Trump administration pulls back from counterinsurgency operations elsewhere, American airstrikes in Somalia have soared. Last year, the strikes killed a record 326 people. In the first two months of 2019 alone, they have killed 225.

• Mr. Trump was forced to publicly acknowledge what intelligence officials have long been telling the White House: Even during eight months of diplomacy, North Korea was steadily adding to its nuclear infrastructure.

• If you’re on federal disability payments and on Facebook, be careful what you post. Uncle Sam wants to watch.

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