Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Janine Hurst. The House last night voted to take back

$9 billion in already approved federal funding for foreign aid and public media. President Trump

is expected to sign the bill soon. The vote was along party lines, Republican Steve Scalise.

Getting spending under control.

Does it answer all the problems?

No.

$9 billion, I would say, is a good start.

And hopefully we do more things like this.

But Democratic House with Hakeem Jeffries says it's reckless.

It's going to undermine the ability of people in rural America and in small-town America to receive

advance warning or necessary information when disaster strikes.

The bulk of the money, around $8 billion was allocated to foreign assistance programs.

At $1. billion dollars was for the

Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which funds NPR, PBS, and their member stations.

President Trump is threatening to sue the Wall Street Journal and its owner for publishing an article

linking him to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. As NPR Stephen Fowler reports, the journal obtained a letter allegedly sent by Trump to Epstein for his 50th birthday.

In a truth social post, Trump said the Wall Street Journal was told directly by Caroline Leavitt and by President Trump that the letter was a fake.

Later, Trump also said in a post, he asked Attorney General

Pam Bondi to produce, quote, any and all pertinent grand jury testimony in Epstein's case.

For more than a week, Trump has faced controversy over the so-called Epstein files,

files that Trump once told his supporters he would release, then his administration said didn't exist,

and that he now falsely claims is a, quote,

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