What to Know • President Donald Trump will hold his eighth Cabinet meeting this morning amid tensions over the government shutdown and National Guard deployments in Illinois and Oregon, and the potential agreement of Israel and Hamas to the “first phase” of the Trump administration’s peace plan. • The “first phase” of the plan to end the Israel-Hames conflict in Gaza includes a pause in fighting and release of Israeli hostages and Palestinian prisoners. • Lawyers for Chicago and Illinois will go before a federal judge to try to block troops from being deployed in the city, while attorneys for Portland and Oregon will urge a federal appeals court to leave in place a restraining order against troop deployments there.

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