President Obama Cancels Fundraising Trip for Cabinet Meeting on Ebola Response

According to ABC News, President Barack Obama will postpone his campaign fundraising trip to take part in a cabinet meeting on how the administration will respond to the outbreak of Ebola in the United States.

The decision comes after a second nurse who treated the late Thomas Eric Duncan at a Dallas hospital has tested positive for Ebola herself.

The news, via ABC:

BREAKING: White House: Pres. Obama postponing campaign fundraising trip, to convene cabinet meeting on response to Ebola – @devindwyer

— ABC News Politics (@ABCPolitics) October 15, 2014

This is a developing story…

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