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Mon Jan 5, 2026, 08:10 AM Monday

Epstein, health care and a shutdown fight: Here's what the House faces in January

(The Hill) The House will return from a holiday break to face sagas that have vexed the chamber for months.

Debates on health care and attempts to revive expired ObamaCare subsidies will stretch into January and the first quarter of the year. An end-of-month funding deadline poses a threat of a partial government shutdown. And the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) slow release of files about the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, as well as the House’s own investigation into the matter, could again roil the chamber.

Here are five things the House faces in January:

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/epstein-health-care-shutdown-fight-220000643.html

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