Stephen Fowler

Stephen Fowler, NPR News.

More than 90% of federal spending goes towards popular entitlement programs like Social Security, Medicare, plus spending on defense and interest payments on more than $38 trillion in debt.

Doge didn't touch those programs.

Congress would have to be the ones to take action, and this year they did.

The One Big Beautiful Bill Act saw tax cuts and new spending on President Trump's priorities.

It's actually expected to increase the federal deficit by at least $3 trillion additional dollars over the next decade.

Good morning.

Well, on the surface, it sure looked like a lot.

Justice.gov slash Epstein went live around 4 p.m., and there was a queue you had to wait in before accessing the page.

The Epstein library contained well over 100,000 pages of

Court records, Freedom of Information Act files, memoranda from the Justice Department, and videos from outside Epstein's federal prison cell where he died by suicide in 2019.

And documents that the Epstein Files Transparency Act signed into law last month compelled the Justice Department to hand over.

Well, yeah, it's not all the files.

And in the grand scheme of what was released, there aren't that many things that are actually new, Scott.

Notably, there aren't many mentions of the president in this latest release.

He was a longtime friend of Epstein before they had a falling out and has appeared in previously released files.

Eighty percent of it comes from public court records for more than 50 cases against Epstein, his accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell and others.

There's about 4,000 files and about 8,500 pages that fall under this new transparency act.

Most of those are photos of Epstein's estate and his travels with people like former President Bill Clinton, among others.

And there's this previously undisclosed FBI report from 1996, 30 years ago, that accused Epstein of child pornography crimes and allegedly threatened to burn the accuser's house down if she told anyone about it.