From 50m agoDonald Trump meets with cabinet at Camp David to discuss Iran war resolutionTom AmbroseHello and welcome to the US politics live blog.President Donald Trump will convene a cabinet meeting later today at his Camp David retreat as he grapples with how to resolve his war against Iran.He will also be keen to find a way to bring down gasoline prices as the Republicans head into the November midterm elections.This will be only his third trip to Camp David during his second term, with Trump largely having stayed away from the mountaintop presidential retreat in western Maryland.White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters at a briefing last week that this would be the 13th Cabinet meeting of Trump’s second term and that it would be “a lot of fun and something different for the cabinet to experience together.”A sign for Camp David, the presidential retreat, is pictured near Thurmont, Md., Aug. 18, 2023. Photograph: Andrew Harnik/APThe agenda for the meeting will likely focus heavily on foreign policy, Reuters reported. Trump is engaged in tit-for-tat strikes against Iranian targets with no end in sight to a conflict that the president initially projected would last just a few weeks but is now five months old.The Iran war has sent gasoline prices spiraling and taken a toll on his popularity across the US. This week, a Reuters-Ipsos poll found just one in three Americans support the war, the lowest in the poll since the conflict’s early days.In another foreign policy development, Trump on Thursday night announced that his so-called “Board of Peace” reached an agreement for the complete disarmament of Hamas militants and other armed groups in Gaza. Israel has yet to respond officially to the plan.In other developments:
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