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

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• President Trump, confronting perhaps the most ominous economic signs of his time in office, is fuming over what he sees as a conspiracy working against him, pushed by outside forces including the news media and his own handpicked Federal Reserve chairman. The claims provide a ready target to help Mr. Trump deflect blame if the economy does tip into recession.

• After Julián Castro’s speech at the 2012 Democratic convention burst him onto the national scene, party leaders waited for him to seize on his “Obama Moment.” And waited. And waited. And waited.

• American Jews have found themselves enmeshed in an uncomfortable debate over the growing distance between traditional liberal American Jewish values and the political realities of an Israeli government that’s embraced a deep alliance with Mr. Trump.