WASHINGTON (AP) — The House is expected late Thursday to approve President Donald Trump’s request to claw back about $9 billion for public broadcasting and foreign aid as Republicans target institutions and programs they view as bloated or out of step with their agenda.

Trump has told his Epstein-focused supporters to “move on,” claiming that the unreleased files are a political concoction that “nobody cares about.” On Tuesday, Trump told reporters that those still invested in uncovering the associates of the notorious child sex trafficker are—according to him—“ pretty bad people .”

The MAGA movement, united for years around the theory of elite impunity, is suddenly uncertain, fractured, and, in some quarters, mutinous.

How Jeffrey Epstein could finish Trump from beyond the grave - COMMENT: For the first time, the Maga base is not buying what Trump is selling. Or to put it another way, someone who died six years ago is posing the greatest challenge to the president’s authority since he returned to the White House in January,

Democrats are latching on to the Jeffrey Epstein scandal. On Tuesday, they trolled Republicans in online posts and demanded records be released, reveling in a rare backlash roiling President Donald Trump's fiercely loyal base.

President Donald Trump claimed Republicans are being duped by Democrats on the Epstein case while arguing Biden's autopen scandal deserves more attention.

US President Donald Trump decried the "lunatic left" who only want to talk about the "Jeffrey Epstein hoax," after "strong prodding by Fake News and success-starved" on Truth Social on Wednesday.Trump then listed what he claimed were other scams and fake news from the "radical left Democrats,

President Trump on Wednesday bashed "PAST supporters" for their focus on what he called the "Jeffrey Epstein Hoax" amid ongoing scrutiny of his administration's handling of evidence in the notorious Epstein's case.