Trump admin updates: EU will buy $750 billion worth of U.S. energy under deal

Another week, another stalemate in the House of Representatives over releasing the Jeffrey Epstein files.

The GOP-led Rules Committee -- which was working on advancing a slate of unrelated bills -- came to a halt Monday evening because Democrats announced their plan to force a committee vote on bipartisan legislation that would call for the release of the Epstein files.

Republicans on the panel decided to recess the meeting with lawmakers, saying there were no plans to reconvene at all. Rep. Ralph Norman, R-S.C., said Monday he and the other Republicans on the committee did not want to vote on Democrats’ Epstein amendments, calling the effort "grandstanding."

Majority Leader Steve Scalise told reporters it was "unlikely" the committee would meet this week at all.

-ABC News' Lauren Peller

House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan subpoenaed a former Department of Justice prosecutor who helped investigate President Donald Trump.

Thomas Windom, former senior assistant special counsel worked under then-special counsel Jack Smith, played a role in investigating Trump’s classified documents, the investigation into the Jan. 6 attack at the Capitol and efforts to overturn the 2020 election.

“The Committee believes Thomas Windom possess information that is vital to its oversight on this matter, and Windom's refusal to answer several questions in his transcribed interview impedes the Committee's oversight, making compulsory process necessary,” Jordan said in a statement Monday.

Jordan requests Windom appear before the committee on Sept. 30.

Windom appeared before the committee on June 12 for a transcribed interview but declined to answer several questions from the committee without authorization from DOJ, according to Jordan.

“The Committee sought your voluntary cooperation with our inquiry because, due to your service as a senior official on Special Counsel Jack Smith’s team, it believes you possess information that is vital to oversight on this matter. Your refusal to answer several questions in your transcribed interview impedes the Committee’s oversight, and your stated bases for declining to cooperate fully are not persuasive,” the letter states.

-ABC News’ Lauren Peller

The White House is sticking by its so-called "big, beautiful" legislation despite a Congressional Budget Office (CBO) analysis stating the legislative package increases the federal deficit by about $3.4 trillion.

"This bill was a great bill for the American people. It was the largest tax cut for middle and working class families in our nation's history, and the president wants to see this country get our fiscal house in order," White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters, not addressing Monday's CBO analysis.

Calling it a "fiscally responsible bill," Leavitt also attempted to argue that Trump's steep tariff policy would help offset the country's deficit, despite the uncertainty of Trump's trade policy.

"That's why this was a fiscally responsible bill, one of the most fiscally conservative pieces of legislation for its size that has ever crossed through Capitol Hill and the President wants to cut our deficit," Leavitt said.

-ABC News' Lalee Ibssa

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters on Monday that there could be "more trade announcements" made before the Aug. 1 deadline.

Leavitt said that the Trump administration continues to be in "constant communication" with trading partners.

On July 7, President Donald Trump signed an executive order delaying the tariffs on dozens of countries that were set to take effect on July 9.