President Trump and Prime Minister Keir Starmer of Britain in Aberdeen, Scotland, on Monday. On the visit, Scotland’s first minister, John Swinney, presented Mr. Trump with gifts including a document dating from 1853 that registered the marriage of Mr. Trump’s maternal great-grandparents.
The bill passed the committee with the support of every Democrat and only one Republican, its sponsor, who modified it to shield President Trump from a divestment requirement.
The top Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee also pressed the Justice Department for a promise that Ms. Maxwell will not be pardoned for her cooperation in matters related to the Jeffrey Epstein files.
Senator Richard Durbin wrote that there were “serious concerns that Ms. Maxwell may provide false information or selectively withhold information, in return for a pardon or sentence commutation.”
“I don’t know why it should be politically painful to be transparent,” Representative Thomas Massie, a Kentucky Republican, said on Sunday, referring to comments by Speaker Mike Johnson.
With lawmakers out of Washington for a five-week summer recess, a field hearing in a swing state gave G.O.P. lawmakers a controlled environment for pitching a measure that polls show is unpopular.
Members of the House Ways and Means Committee gathered at the Las Vegas warehouse of an electronic sign factory to highlight President Trump’s new domestic policies, including one to eliminate taxes on some tip income and overtime pay.
Working to exploit a G.O.P. rift, Democrats are aggressively pushing charges of a coverup in the case of the accused pedophile, which many of them once dismissed as a conspiracy theory.
Representative Hakeem Jeffries, Democrat of New York and the minority leader, and Representative Katherine Clark, Democrat of Massachusetts, arriving for a news conference on Wednesday.
The Republican speaker truncated the legislative schedule for the week ahead of a summer recess, moving to deny Democrats the chance to force votes on whether to release the Epstein material.
The Republican speaker of the House had said last week that the government should release “everything” in the Jeffrey Epstein files, in a rare break with the president that turned out to be short-lived.
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