WASHINGTON—Senate Republicans reached an agreement Tuesday with the White House on a slimmed-down $9 billion package of spending cuts that preserves funding for AIDS treatments in Africa, a key concern for a group of GOP lawmakers.

Congressional Republicans are launching into their next big legislative fight – this time over DOGE spending cuts for foreign aid and public broadcasting – that risks the wrath of President Donald Trump if they fail.

Lawmakers have a busy week in Washington as senators consider a GOP plan to pull back billions of dollars that hits foreign aid and public broadcasting.

After an earlier setback for the Trump administration when House Republicans failed to advance a key procedural vote on a package of legislation including three crypto measures, President Donald Trump said late Tuesday he has made a deal with Republican members of Congress to advance the legislation on Wednesday.

Three pieces of cryptocurrency legislation and the fiscal 2026 Defense appropriations bill stalled in the House on Tuesday as a group of conservative Republican lawmakers objected to how the crypto bills were being sent to the floor,

President Donald Trump told Texas Republicans Tuesday the White House believes the GOP can flip as many as five US House seats as part of a Republican redistricting effort in the state, according to a source familiar with the call.

PHOENIX (AP) — Democrats are latching on to the Jeffrey Epstein scandal, demanding records be released and trolling Republicans on social media, news shows and in the U.S. House as they revel in a rare fissure between President Donald Trump and his fiercely loyal base.