Former President Trump will travel to the nation’s capital on Thursday to take part in a series of meetings with Republicans from both the House and Senate, and attend an event with top business executives in America.

The former president’s meetings with congressional Republicans will be “looking ahead at the policies that will save the nation,” a senior Trump campaign official told Fox News Digital.

Such policies, according to the campaign official, include “Trump’s commitment to protecting seniors with no cuts to Social Security or Medicare, policies that actually secure our border and make our communities safe again, an America first foreign policy that reclaims peace through strength and world leadership, and economic policies of lower taxes that reignite the vibrant Trump economy we had just a few years ago.”

With less than five months to go before Election Day, Trump will kick off his Thursday morning at the Capitol Hill Club – a popular members-only haunt for House Republicans in Washington, D.C., that also serves as home to the Republican National Committee (RNC) and the National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) – around 9:30 a.m.

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An invitation sent to senior House GOP aides on Tuesday morning, obtained by Fox News Digital, showed that Trump is coming on a joint invitation from House leaders – Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., Majority Leader Steve Scalise, R-La., Majority Whip Tom Emmer, R-Minn., and House GOP Conference Chair Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y.

House GOP leaders have been almost completely in lockstep with Trump since Johnson took the speaker’s gavel in late October. Multiple sources previously told Fox News Digital that Johnson keeps Trump in the loop before announcing major House agenda items.

Trump and the GOP lawmakers will “discuss growing the House Republican majority and the 2025 legislative agenda,” Johnson’s office told Fox News Digital.

Following his meeting with House Republicans, which will be closed to the press and take place amid a House Judiciary Committee hearing to examine Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s “political prosecution of President Trump,” the former president will take part in a discussion with top business leaders.

Trump will attend and speak at an event hosted by Business Roundtable, an association of more than 200 CEOs of America’s leading companies. There, he will make his case for a more prosperous economy should he receive a second term in the White House.

The off-the-record discussion, which is scheduled to start at 11:15 a.m., will be steered by FOX Business host Larry Kudlow, who served as the director of the National Economic Council in the Trump administration from 2018 to 2021.

Former President Trump speaks during a campaign rally at Sunset Park in Las Vegas on June 9, 2024. (Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Images)

White House chief of staff Jeff Zients will also be in attendance for the roundtable discussion, speaking on behalf of President Biden while he travels overseas for the G-7 Summit in Italy.

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After the roundtable event, Trump will meet with Senate Republicans at 12:30 p.m.

A Trump campaign source told Fox News Digital that Trump’s meeting with Republicans from the upper chamber will be closed to the press and take place at the National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) headquarters.

Senate GOP Conference Chair John Barrasso’s office confirmed to Fox News Digital on Monday that Trump would address Senate Republicans this week.

“I’ve invited President Trump to meet with members of our Republican Conference,” Barrasso, R-Wyo., wrote to fellow Senate Republicans in a message obtained by Fox News Digital. “I believe it will be helpful to hear directly from President Trump about his plans for the summer and to also share our ideas for a strategic governing agenda in 2025.”

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., who endorsed Trump’s bid to take back the White House in March, said Wednesday that he would be in attendance for the meeting and that the former president has “earned the nomination by the voters” for the 2024 presidential election. It’ll be the first time the two high-profile Republicans have met since December 2020.

After the gathering concludes, Trump and Senate Republicans are expected to speak to members of the press.

Former President Trump leaves after addressing members of the media following the verdict in his New York trial at Trump Tower on May 31, 2024. (Getty Images)

Trump’s visit comes as he continues to shape his own presidential re-election and GOP races across the country, just weeks ahead of the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

The former president’s trip also comes as he continues to face a steady stream of legal battles. The deadline for Trump’s legal team to file any post-trial motions in New York v. Trump is set for the end of the day Thursday.

After meeting with congressional Republicans on Thursday, Trump will have another sitdown with Johnson and NRCC Chairman Richard Hudson, R-N.C., from his Mar-a-Lago resort on Monday, a source familiar with planning told Fox News Digital.

Fox News’ Liz Elkind, Julia Johnson, and Brooke Singman contributed to this update.

The United Nations Security Council’s unanimous endorsement of a U.S. cease-fire proposal in Gaza has buoyed hopes that the devastating, eight-month-old war might come to an end.

On Tuesday, the militant group Hamas issued its long-awaited, formal response, presenting several amendments to Qatari and Egyptian mediators.

But despite intense urging from the U.S. and other world powers, both Israel and Hamas still seem at odds over what they are willing to agree to — differences that could doom the deal.

The plan — which is similar to one submitted by Hamas weeks ago and was presented by President Biden on May 31 as an Israeli proposal — comprises three phases.

The first phase includes a six-week cease-fire and the release of 33 Israeli hostages, including women, men over age 50 or those who are ill or wounded. For every hostage, Israel would release 30 to 50 Palestinian detainees.

Israeli troops would also withdraw from populated parts of the Gaza Strip, according to the U.N. Security Council resolution, and allow displaced civilians to return home, including to northern Gaza. Humanitarian aid, including food and medicine for Palestinians, would increase significantly.

While the first phase is being implemented, negotiations would continue for the second phase. That would see the full withdrawal of Israel’s military, including from the Rafah crossing and the Philadelphi Corridor between Gaza and Egypt. More hostages and detainees would be exchanged. It would also lead to a permanent cease-fire.

In the third phase, the bodies of hostages who died in Gaza would be returned. A multiyear reconstruction plan for the enclave would commence.

The U.N. resolution rejects any demographic or territorial change in Gaza, “including any actions that reduce” the Palestinian territory. That has been the U.S. position as well. The language differs from a previous draft, which said that any buffer zones created in Gaza would be considered territorial change.

An important detail is that the cease-fire would remain in place between Phase 1 and Phase 2 while negotiations continue, even after the six weeks envisioned in the first phase are over.

Hamas said its proposed amendments were aimed at guaranteeing the complete withdrawal of Israeli forces from all of Gaza. It also sought a firmer timeline for the cease-fire, including a permanent end to the fighting, which according to the U.S. plan is supposed to be implemented during Phase 2, after more negotiations.

Nevertheless, Hamas insisted both it and Islamic Jihad, another militant group operating in Gaza, “voiced willingness to deal positively” with the negotiations “in order to reach an agreement.”

Hamas leaders remain suspicious that Israel will use an initial acceptance of the proposal to free Israeli hostages being held by the militants — a stipulation in the first phase of the deal — and then renege on the rest of the deal and resume its military campaign.

Despite U.S. assurances to the contrary, it remains unclear whether Israel has accepted the deal.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has not publicly endorsed it, repeatedly ruling out a permanent cease-fire or a withdrawal from Gaza until Israel’s goals — the destruction of Hamas, both militarily and as a governing entity — are fulfilled. Full withdrawal is a step that is supposed to be part of negotiations.

Netanyahu is also facing dissent within his government that could jeopardize the chances of a deal. His political fortunes became more tenuous this week after the Israeli centrist politician Benny Gantz left the government in protest over Netanyahu’s conduct of the war and refusal to publicly endorse the cease-fire plan.

The departure of Gantz, a former defense minister and one of the few members of Netanyahu’s government widely respected by the Biden administration, leaves the Israeli prime minister even more beholden to the most radical right-wing elements in his coalition: National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich, the finance minister.

The two have outsized sway over control of the Israeli occupation of the West Bank. Both favor annexation of land claimed by Palestinians, including Gaza, and the forced removal of some Palestinians. Gantz’s presence kept some of those moves at bay.

On Wednesday, U.S. Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken criticized Hamas, saying that it took too long to respond and that some of the group’s “numerous changes” were “workable,” while others were not.

“Hamas could have answered with a single word: yes,” Blinken said in a news conference in the Qatari capital, Doha, with Qatari Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman al Thani. “Instead, Hamas waited nearly two weeks and requested numerous changes.”

“The time for decision is now,” Blinken said. “The longer this goes on, the more people will suffer.”

Blinken is making his eighth trip to the region since the war began, shuttling to capitals to push for the release of hostages, more humanitarian aid and a cease-fire, and in a largely unsuccessful attempt to urge Israel to minimize civilian casualties in its bombardments of Gaza.

More than 36,000 Gazans have been killed in the war, according to Palestinian figures. About 1,200 Israelis were killed during the Oct. 7 Hamas attack in southern Israel.

Mohammed, the Qatari prime minister, said that pressure would have to be exerted on both Hamas and Israel to accept the proposal.

“It is frustrating, lots of times. We have seen the behavior from both parties on different occasions being counterproductive to the efforts,” he said, emphasizing that the primary aim was for a permanent solution, including the establishment of an independent Palestinian state alongside Israel.

“What we are aiming for is one specific goal is to end the war, to end the suffering of the people, to get the hostages back. And then we will think about the day after.”

Bulos reported from Amman and Wilkinson from Washington.

Several arrests were made at the Congressional Baseball Game for Charity on Wednesday night, after individuals who appeared to be protesters of climate change stormed the field at Nationals Park in D.C.

The game, which raises money for local charities in the D.C. area, features Democrats and Republicans from the House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate.

Climate change protesters were seen chanting with signs that read, “Stop playing games with our future,” and shirts that read, “End Fossil Fuels” before several people jumped onto the field.

A group known as Climate Defiance took credit for the display in a tweet on X.

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“Update: Eight of us have been arrested for shutting down the Congressional Baseball Game. They are behind bars now. Make no mistake: It’s the Members of Congress who should be locked up.”

The group also bragged about their mission on social media and causing the game to pause.

“We have taken the field at the Congressional Baseball Game + play has FROZEN! Congress sends billions of public $$ to subsidize deadly fossil fuels — but the police are tackling us instead. This Chevron-sponsored game cannot continue. This is unconscionable,” the group wrote. 

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Climate change protesters crashed the annual Congressional Baseball Game on Wednesday evening.  (Emily Hillstrom)

The U.S. Capitol Police (USCP) promptly arrived and escorted the demonstrators out and the game was able to resume play. USCP confirmed that eight people were arrested.

“We are proud of our officers who are working to keep everyone safe during tonight’s Congressional Baseball Game for Charity. When eight people tried to protest on the field, our officers quickly stopped them and arrested them. The eight people are being charged with federal charges – Interference with a Member of the U.S. Capitol Police,” Capitol Police wrote in a statement on X. 

A small group of anti-Israel protesters were also spotted in the crowd. The group unfurled a Free Palestine and Palestinian flag in the right field section by the foul post. The group’s message was met with boos from others in the stands.

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This is not the first time the annual charity game has been met with controversy.

Over the last several years, the event has drawn more scrutiny after a gunman opened fire on Republicans who were at the stadium early for practice in 2017.

The Congressional Baseball Game has been held since 1909.