Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky arrived at the White House this morning for what press secretary Karoline Leavitt described as a positive and productive meeting with President Donald Trump, kicking off a whirlwind day of diplomacy in Washington that also saw Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sit down with the president in the Oval Office. Photos released by the administration showed Netanyahu shaking hands with Secretary of State Marco Rubio, with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth visible nearby, before the two leaders huddled with advisers. Netanyahu has since departed the White House, though details about what was discussed in either meeting remain scarce.

Zelensky’s visit extends well beyond his morning at the executive mansion. He is scheduled to travel to Capitol Hill later today, where all senators have been invited to meet him around the same time they are expected to vote on bipartisan legislation that would ratchet up sanctions against Russia and extend certain measures against Iran. The bill, originally introduced by the late Senator Lindsey Graham in April, has drawn more than sixty co-sponsors from both parties and is being championed by Republican Armed Services Committee chairman Roger Wicker alongside Democratic Senators Richard Blumenthal and Jeanne Shaheen.

Before heading to the Hill, however, Zelensky made an emotional stop at the Washington National Cathedral for Graham’s memorial service. Reporters inside the cathedral spotted the Ukrainian leader arriving roughly an hour before the service began, already engaged in conversation near the section where members of Congress typically sit. For Zelensky, the funeral represents both a moment of personal mourning and a diplomatic opportunity, given how many American lawmakers are gathered under one roof.

Netanyahu’s visit comes at a more fraught political moment for the Israeli leader, who finds himself less popular among American lawmakers than at perhaps any point in his nearly two decades in power. While most Republicans still view him favorably, recent war powers votes suggest softening support along the margins within the GOP, where a growing faction aligned with Trump’s Maga base has grown exasperated with the longtime ally over its role in regional conflict with Iran. Meanwhile, more than one hundred Democrats recently backed a measure to cut military aid to Israel entirely, signaling that Netanyahu can no longer rely on broad bipartisan backing of the kind he once enjoyed.

The divisions were underscored recently when Joe Kent, head of the National Counterterrorism Center and something of a favorite within the Maga movement, resigned from his post over his belief that Israel and its domestic lobby had helped push Trump toward military strikes abroad. Polling from Pew Research Center earlier this year added another dimension to the rift, finding older Republicans still broadly supportive of Israel while fifty-seven percent of Republicans between eighteen and forty-nine held unfavorable views of the country — a generational fault line that may only deepen as conflicts in Gaza continue to unfold against the backdrop of American politics.