🇺🇸⚡️- Earlier this year Democratic Senate Leadership caved to the GOP after threatening a shutdown causing massive anger towards the party by its voters, its extremely unlikely the same will happen again.

🇺🇸⚡️- In the last 12 years since Government shutdowns became a normal occurrence, the public has blamed the GOP for them nearly every time and this one is no different.

Morning Consult poll shows the public blaming Republicans for the potential shutdown by a 13 point margin.

🇺🇸🇻🇪⚡️- BREAKING: Venezuelan opposition leaders are in talks with the Trump Administration discussing the possible overthrow of Maduro.

🇺🇸🇻🇪⚡️ - "The push is being led by Marco Rubio, CIA Director John Ratcliffe and Stephen Miller also both have expressed support for the plan. Opposition leaders have drafted plans on what to do the first 100 hours after Maduro is ousted." - NYT.

🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡️- "Israeli artillery shelling targets the northern areas of the Nuseirat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip." - Al Jazeera.

For the third time today, Israel conducts attacks inside of the Gaza Strip, while the Hamas delegation decides whether to accept or decline President Trump's peace plan.

🇮🇩⚡️- BREAKING: 65 students have been buried under the rubble of a school that collapsed in Indonesia.

🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡️- 39 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza since the Trump peace plan was presented and sent to the Hamas delegation on Monday evening.

🇸🇾🇮🇱⚡️- Israeli forces have fully captured the town of Koya in western Daraa, Syria. They have set up military checkpoints in and around the town.

🇻🇪🇺🇸⚡️- Venezuelan President Maduro has signed a security decree incase of a US attack, giving himself expanded security powers which include mobilization of armed forces, control of oil and all public services.

🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡️- BREAKING: The Israeli Army is significantly advancing from the northeast axis near Jalaa street in Gaza city, on the ground Journalists report "unprecedented" escalation of Israeli ground and air attacks.

"Many Palestinians are still trapped under the rubble, and Civil Defence teams have reported being unable to access the area due to the artillery shelling and air raids." - Al Jazeera.

🇺🇸🇨🇳⚡- "Top US military officials are pushing back against Secretary of War Hegseth's new Pentagon strategy, which shifts focus to homeland defense, cuts emphasis on China and overseas commitments, and signals major command restructuring.

The officials argue Hegseth's plan is short-sighted and overly political. The major issue with the plan is it risks weakening US deterrence as China’s military grows and Russia remains aggressive," - The Washington Post.

🇺🇸🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡- The Times of Israel believes Envoy Steve Witkoff will step-down by 2026 as a Gaza deal nears finalization.

🇺🇸🇶🇦⚡- The large-number of aerial refueling tankers that arrived in the UK yesterday have now departed towards Qatar.

At least seven are heading towards the Middle East, with all dragging fighter jets.

🇺🇸🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡️- BREAKING: Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu says "The Israeli army will remain in most of Gaza."

🇺🇸🇬🇧⚡- Additional US KC-135R tankers have arrived over UK airspace.

🇺🇸🇵🇸⚡- Qatar and Egypt have delivered the Trump-Gaza peace deal to Hamas, with Hamas currently reviewing it.

A trilateral meeting between Qatar, Turkey and Hamas is scheduled for later today once Hamas finishes reviewing the peace plan.

🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡️- An Israeli AH-64 "Saraf" attack helicopter was filmed over Gaza City engaging targets with its autocannons.

🇺🇸🇶🇦🇮🇱⚡- "Qatar is satisfied with the US security guarantees it received in the aftermath of the [Israeli] attacks on Doha," - Qatar's Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

🇺🇸🇬🇧⚡- Scenes from RAF Prestwick, Scotland.

🇺🇸⚡️- Scenes from Quantico, Virginia where President Trump will be meeting with Secretary of War Pete Hegseth and hundreds of other high-ranking senior military officers from a multitude of different branches.

🇺🇸⚡️- Ahead of this meeting, President Trump has said he will fire any military leaders "on the spot" if he doesn't like them.