 and he would check on the trustee's progress next month. The House is passing an amendment to ban the State Department from using Gaza Health Ministry statistics regarding the Israel-Hamas war. The Gaza Health Ministry is the only official entity tracking the number of deaths in the war and has been cited by both U.S. and Israeli officials. If the amendment is signed into law, it would effectively end discussion of the growing death toll in Gaza, which has hit over 38,000.