The House plans to vote on Thursday on a broad resolution condemning bigotry, as Speaker Nancy Pelosi tries to defuse tension over Representative Ilhan Omar.
House Democrats, rusty after years in the minority, have stomped on their own messages, have fallen prey to Republican maneuvers and are in battling over punishing Ms. Omar for an anti-Israel remark.
The president has railed against the trade deficit, but numbers from last year show that textbook economics caught up with some of his unorthodox economic policies.
The former vice president is preparing his 2020 kickoff, securing staff and alerting top Democrats he plans to run. But he hasn’t made a final decision yet.
President Trump’s former lawyer, Michael D. Cohen, brought drafts of a 2017 statement he made to Congress, along with emails with Mr. Trump’s lawyers about its drafting.
Rank-and-file members have accused House Democratic leaders of unfair treatment toward Representative Ilhan Omar, whose comments about Israel inspired the measure.
American negotiators insist that agriculture be included in a prospective trade deal while European officials say the topic was never up for discussion, jeopardizing talks before they even begin.