House Speaker Mike Johnson secures victory as Congress approves $9 billion in spending cuts targeting international aid and public broadcasting in first rescissions package in decades.

The Republican-controlled U.S. House of Representatives early on Friday passed President Donald Trump's $9 billion funding cut to public media and foreign aid, sending it to the White House to be signed into law.

All seven Republicans in Indiana’s delegation voted for the final recissions bill on July 18 while the state’s two Democrats voted against it, which mirrors how the Hoosier representatives voted during the House’s initial approval of the spending cuts in June.

The story from The Wall Street Journal that President Donald Trump reportedly sent a birthday card with a picture of a naked woman to Jeffrey Epstein rocked the House of Representatives late on Thursday evening.

The House of Representatives is poised to consider a $9 billion spending cuts package approved by the White House.

The House GOP’s budget cuts vote was delayed by the Epstein files. Congress passed its first major cryptocurrency legislation. Trump’s budget director defended the decision not to release a budget plan.