Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Rylan Barton. The House of Representatives is poised to vote on a bill to end the longest government shutdown in U.S. history. Democrats railed against the measure during a today's final floor debate for not further extending Affordable Care Act tax credits, which expire at the end of the year, and said Republican leaders gave lawmakers

a paid vacation during the shutdown. Representative Michelle Fishbach of Minnesota defended

Republicans' decision. We were doing the work we were elected to do, and the real story here

is not about the absence. It is about the commitment. And for Republicans, we never wavered. If the Democrats

cared so much about working, they would not have shut the government down. The bill would

temporarily fund the government through January with longer term funding for a few key functions

like SNAP food assistance. It would also reverse the firings of workers who were let go

during the shutdown. If it passes the House, the measure would still need President Trump's signature

to become law. Republicans on the House Oversight Committee have released more than 20,000 new

pages of documents from the estate of the late financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. NPR's

Stephen Fowler reports this comes after Democrats on the committee highlighted three emails that

relate to President Trump. An NPR review of the latest batch of Epstein files finds court documents,

financial market outlooks, and many messages to and from Epstein about Trump. That includes one message from 2017 where Epstein wrote that, quote,

I have met some very bad people, none as bad as Trump.

The Republican document dump comes as a counter to three emails released by Democrats that

suggests there was more to Trump and Epstein's previous relationship that has been reported.

Like a 2019 message in which Epstein said that Trump, quote, knew about the girls.

Epstein died by suicide awaiting trial on charges of trafficking underage girls for sex.

Stephen Fowler, NPR News.

As the Trump administration is ramping up its deportation efforts,

Democratic members of Congress

are warning governors that immigration officials are accessing state driver's license data. NPR's

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