Hamas, Israel and Trump
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President Trump says the remaining hostages believed to still be alive should be released on Monday or Tuesday.
A bipartisan measure to restrict Trump’s war powers failed in the Senate. Last night: In a 51-48 vote, the Senate rejected legislation that would require the president to seek congressional authorization to carry out military strikes on cartels.
The announcement comes days after President Trump presented a 20-point peace plan aimed at ending the war in Gaza.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel said he would convene his government on Thursday to sign off on the agreement. Hamas said that the agreement would lead to the end of the war, but many of the details were unclear.
Sen. John Fetterman congratulated President Donald Trump on the Israel-Hamas peace plan noting that he and Trump share an "ironclad commitment to Israel and its people."
President Trump will host a cabinet meeting on Thursday morning a 11 a.m. as negotiations continue over government funding, cities and states sue over National Guard deployments, and a peace deal has reportedly been reached in Israel.
Egyptian President Abdel Fatah El Sisi also said Wednesday that the messages he had received out of the talks in Sharm el-Sheikh were "very encouraging."
President Trump is set to meet Tuesday with Edan Alexander, an Israeli-American who had been held hostage by Hamas for 19 months, to mark two years since the attacks in Israel that killed hundreds. Trump’s public schedule lists a meeting with Alexander in the Oval Office that will be closed to the press.