That’s a wrap – thank you for reading the Need to Know blog today. These were some of the main stories:

• Republicans release $7.2trn tax cut plan: House Republicans released a budget plan on Wednesday (Thursday AEDT) that sets the stage for advancing many of President Donald Trump’s top domestic priorities.

• Trump and Putin will ‘probably’ meet in Saudi Arabia: US President Donald Trump said that in addition to plans for him and Putin to visit each other, they will “probably” first meet in Saudi Arabia.

• Steggall crashes Farrell’s press conference: Trade Minister Don Farrell and teal MP Zali Steggall have clashed at Parliament House after electoral reforms passed the Senate on Wednesday night.

• Dutton calls for antisemitic nurses citizenship investigation: Opposition Leader Peter Dutton is calling for an investigation into how the nurses who claimed they would refuse to treat and would kill Israeli patients gained Australian citizenship.

• Influencer who exposed antisemitic nurses declares ‘mission accomplished’: Max Veifer, the influencer who published a video of two NSW Health nurses claiming they wouldn’t treat Israeli patients, has spoken to Sky News overnight.

• Trump called Zelensky after Putin and said it went ‘very well’: US President Donald Trump says his conversation with Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky went “very well” after he and Russian President Vladimir Putin agreed during a 90-minute phone call to begin negotiations on ending the war “immediately”.