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El Paso, Ilhan Omar, Winter Storm: Your Tuesday Briefing

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Congressional negotiators said on Monday that they had agreed in principle to provide almost $1.38 billion for fencing and other physical barriers along the border with Mexico, part of a broader agreement to avert another partial government shutdown without funding President Trump’s proposed wall.
The details: The financing, including for 55 miles of new fencing, is far less than the $5.7 billion Mr. Trump has demanded, and not even as much as the $1.6 billion a Senate panel approved last year. The president refused that earlier legislation, leading to the longest government shutdown in U. S. history.
What’s next: The latest deal, which would still have to pass in the House and Senate, could be finalized today, well before funding is scheduled to lapse for several federal agencies on Friday. Lawmakers expressed confidence that Mr. Trump would be willing to sign the measure.
Reaction: Mr. Trump was informed of the agreement shortly before appearing at a rally in the border city of El Paso on Monday night. “We’re building the wall anyway,” he later told the crowd. Beto O’Rourke, the former Texas congressman from El Paso who is considering a run for the White House in 2020, held a rally of his own less than a mile away.
Researchers say that a reluctance to support female candidates is apparent in the language voters use to describe men and women running for office, in the qualities voters say they seek in leaders and in the perceived flaws they are willing or unwilling to overlook in candidates.
Those stereotypes and double standards are about to be tested in a presidential race that features at least six women running for the Democratic nomination.
Closer look: Senator Kirsten Gillibrand has so far been the only candidate to make feminism the central theme of her campaign. We also profile Senator Kamala Harris, a former district attorney and state attorney general who has said she is running for president as a “progressive prosecutor.” Critics see a contradiction there.
Representative Ilhan Omar of Minnesota apologized on Monday after drawing bipartisan criticism for implying in a tweet that American support for Israel was fueled by money from a pro-Israel lobbying group.
“Anti-Semitism is real and I am grateful for Jewish allies and colleagues who are educating me on the painful history of anti-Semitic tropes,” Ms. Omar said in a statement. The freshman lawmaker is one of the first two Muslim women elected to Congress.
Go deeper: Ms. Omar’s persistent criticism of Israel has exposed a generational divide within the Democratic Party, pitting older supporters of the Jewish state against younger liberals who accuse the Israeli government of human rights abuses.
Britain’s economy expanded 1.4 percent last year — the slowest pace since 2012 — and contracted in December, according to data released on Monday.

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