One month into President Donald Trump’s term, many meetings could qualify for the distinction as the most consequential for national security. For starters, there was the meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, which led the news cycle for weeks over the president’s new Gaza proposal. The White House issued pages of promised joint initiatives after Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi came to visit. Meanwhile, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, the president’s top advisers met with a Russian delegation for the first time since 2021 to discuss the possibility of peace with Ukraine.
Yet, years from now, the meeting that may turn out to yield the greatest good for America’s national security was a less-publicized roundtable on Jan. 31 in the Roosevelt Room, where the president gathered several governors, members of Congress, and leaders of education reform to push forward initiatives on school choice.
