WASHINGTON (AP) — The Republican-led Congress is testing the popularity of Department of Government Efficiency spending cuts this week by aiming to pass President Donald Trump’s request to claw back about $9 billion in public broadcasting and foreign aid spending.

House Republican leaders are preparing for a late night in the chamber as they try to jam through President Donald Trump’s $9 billion package of cuts to federal funding — after a day of intense talks with GOP holdouts demanding a vote on a Jeffrey Epstein-related measure.

Kentucky Rep. Thomas Massie–whose opposition to the GOP’s budget bill last month led Trump to demand his exile from the party–teamed up with Rep. Ro Khanna to introduce the Epstein Files Transparency Act, which would require Attorney General Pam Bondi to make the documents public within 30 days.

President Donald Trump's vehement denial of the Wall Street Journal's explosive new report about a salacious birthday letter he sent to deceased financier and child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein simply isn't credible in light of all the behavioral patterns he's shown,

The White House sent the nominations of Scott Mayer, chief labor counsel at Boeing Co, and James Murphy, a career lawyer at the National Labor Relations Board, to the U.S. Senate on Wednesday.

After a late-night session, the bill to claw back $9 billion in funds heads to the House, which must pass it by Friday or the executive branch is supposed to release the funding.

President Trump on Thursday announced a new nominee to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) to fill the seat of a previous Democratic commissioner who stepped down at the White

A new voter poll shows that people want third-party options as President Donald Trump's approval rating continues to be below 50%. While Elon Musk could be launching a third party, voters are saying no thanks to one from the world's richest man.

Live updates and the latest news as the Senate sends PBS, NPR, foreign aid clawbacks to the House and senators consider Emil Bove's nomination to a federal appeals court.