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.

Northern Virginia business leaders expressed a turnaround in confidence after a rough showing in April, but skepticism remained in the face of tariffs and cuts from the Department of Government Efficiency.

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The House is looking at President Donald Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency’s spending cuts after Senate Republicans agreed to cancel $9 billion in funding to foreign aid and public broadcasting.

The White House says this is the first of many rescissions bills to cut funding for other government programs.

Fox News senior congressional correspondent Chad Pergram reports on DOGE cuts, President Donald Trump’s spending cuts bill and the possible release of Epstein files on ‘Special Report’.

Maurene Comey, a federal prosecutor in the cases against accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein and hip-hop mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs, has been fired. Although a reason for the dismissal was not immediately clear, she is also the daughter of James Comey, who is the former director of the FBI and a critic of President Donald Trump.