UPDATE: Obama Cancels New Jersey Trip To Deal With Government's Ebola Response

President Obama canceled his trip to Union Township scheduled for Wednesday to work on the government’s response to Ebola following news that a second Texas healthcare worker contracted the virus.

Obama had been expected to host a Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee at the Ristorante da Benito restaurant, according to nj.com.

Obama had scheduled appearances at private fundraisers ahead of the midterm elections and was due to stop in Union Township and Bridgeport, Conn., when he postponed.

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“The president’s travel today to New Jersey and Connecticut has been postponed,” the president’s press secretary said in a statement, according to WCBS. “Late this afternoon, the president will convene a meeting at the White House of cabinet agencies coordinating the government’s response to the Ebola outbreak.”

So far, Obama is still scheduled to appear at a Democratic fundraiser at the Garden City Hotel in New York on Thursday.

The president’s decision comes a day after NBC’s Chief Medical Editor Nancy Snyderman, a 62-year-old Princeton resident, was placed under mandatory quarantine by New Jersey Health Officials. She had violated a voluntary isolation agreement reached after one of her cameramen contracted the Ebola virus.

The state Health Department said there is no indication Princeton residents are at risk of exposure to the deadly virus.