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 $9 billion rescissions package is back in the House after being passed in the Senate. But while Congress is on track to give the president his first DOGE cuts, it’s hardly a great victory.

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The Senate is moving closer to codifying the cuts to government spending championed by President Trump, Elon Musk and DOGE. Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) raised objections to the cuts to public broadcasting in Alaska in an interview with CNN’s Manu Raju.