The House is heading toward a vote on a bill to force the Justice Department to release the case files it has collected on the late financier Jeffrey Epstein. Lawmakers are pushing past a monthslong effort by President Donald Trump and Republican leaders to stop the effort. Many lawmakers say the Justice Department needs to release its case files on Epstein. They argue that the release could show that other people were aware or complicit in Epstein's sexual abuse. House Democrats and a few key Republicans have been able to force a vote on the bill to do that by using a rarely successful measure called a discharge petition.

Conservative lawmakers are heading to the White House to discuss President Donald Trump's tax breaks and spending cuts bill. Many are criticizing the legislation as straying from the party's fiscal goals. But Trump and House Republican leaders are determined to get it over the finish line and say the time for changes is over. House Republican leaders want a Wednesday vote on Trump's bill, just one day after it cleared the Senate. The bill would extend and make permanent various individual and business tax breaks Republicans passed in Trump's first term, plus temporarily add new tax breaks, such as no income taxes on tips and overtime.