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.

President Donald Trump's name was mentioned nine times across the hundreds of pages in the “phase one" release of the Epstein files.

President Trump's loyal base and Democrats alike are now calling for the entire Department of Justice file of Epstein material to be released, an appeal so far rejected by Trump and his aides.

The big question on the tips of many political watchers’ tongues right now is whether the Trump administration’s botched handling of the Epstein files will do what virtually nothing has yet: turn President Donald Trump’s devoted base against him.

President Donald Trump personally called The Wall Street Journal’s editor in chief about its upcoming exposé on his links to Jeffrey Epstein. The phone call, first reported on by Oliver Darcy’s Status,

President Donald Trump will not push for Attorney General Pam Bondi to appoint a special prosecutor to investigate his administration’s management of the Jeffrey Epstein files, as the controversy consumes Congress and his MAGA base.

President Trump "would not recommend" that Attorney General Pam Bondi appoint a special prosecutor to handle the investigation into Jeffrey Epstein, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said Thursday.

The White House press secretary is probably used to tough questions, but she seemed a little taken aback by one from Fox News, of all outlets.

MSNBC’s Melissa Murray reports on the Epstein scandal consuming the Trump White House as MAGA leaders, top Democrats and non-partisan journalists demand answers. Former federal prosecutor Berit Berger and Political Strategist Aisha Mills join.