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Here is your morning brief for Wednesday, April 29th. I'm Luke Vargas for the Wall Street Journal.

President Trump has instructed aides to prepare for an extended blockade of Iran,

aiming to compel the regime to give up its nuclear ambitions.

That's after a Monday meeting in which officials say that Trump rejected Iran's proposal for peace talks

and assessed that his other options, to resume bombing or walk away from the conflict,

carried more risk than blocking Iranian ports.

Trump's decision comes even though the blockade

has driven up gas prices and hurt his polling ahead of the midterms. The White House is warning lawmakers

about more disruption at airports with funding for DHS workers set to run out by May. To avoid that,

its Office of Management and Budget is calling on House lawmakers

to pass a DHS funding bill approved by the Senate last week, though that may not be easy.

Republican House Majority Leader Mike Johnson has pointed to problematic language within the DHS bill

and is thus far declined to put it up for a vote.

Asian stocks have end of the day mixed.

European stocks are down in midday trading, and U.S. stock futures are fairly flat as

investors await today's earnings and the Fed's latest rate decision.

It's the central bank's last meeting before Chair Jerome Powell's term ends next month.

And with it all but certain to hold rate steady,

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