Live updates: White House focuses on Fed as House subpoenas deepen Epstein saga

The White House is attempting to move on from the Jeffrey Epstein controversy on multiple fronts, even as House Republicans joined Democrats to call for more transparency in the situation.

The House left town on Wednesday, but not before an Oversight subcommittee voted to issue subpoenas that direct the Justice Department to hand over Epstein case materials and call on several high-profile politicians, including former President Clinton and his wife, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, to testify. Three Republicans voted with Democrats on the subpoenas. The House’s dysfunction over the matter has the Senate seething.

President Trump on Thursday will take a tour of the Federal Reserve, to see for himself the multibillion-dollar renovation of which has stoked calls for Chair Jerome Powell’s resignation.

The Education Department is touting a $221 million settlement made with Columbia University to restore federal funding that was stripped following a probe into antisemitism on the campus.

But the White House’s Wednesday release of documents related to Russia’s effort to influence the 2016 election has prompted criticism that the administration is seeking a distraction.