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Eight fighter jets will conduct a flyover when Polish President Karol Nawrocki arrives at the White House Wednesday morning, Fox News Digital has learned. 

President Donald Trump’s meeting with Nawrocki, whom Trump backed in the Polish elections earlier in 2025, comes amid ongoing negotiations between Poland’s neighboring Russia and Ukraine to end the conflict between the two countries. 

‘President Trump is looking forward to welcoming President Nawrocki to the White House, who recently won a historic election in Poland,’ White House spokeswoman Anna Kelly said in a Tuesday statement to Fox News Digital. The ‘spectacular flyover will honor the memory of a brave Polish fighter pilot whose life was tragically taken too soon and capture the special relationship between our two countries.’

Four F-16 fighter jets are slated to perform a missing man formation Wednesday to honor a Polish army F-16 pilot who died in an August crash during a rehearsal for an airshow in Radom, Poland. 

Additionally, four F-35 fighter jets will also fly over the White House to recognize the relationship between the U.S. and Poland. The U.S. sells F-35 fighter jets to allies, including Poland, and the State Department signed off on a potential $1.85 billion sale of sustainment equipment for the F-35 to Poland in August. 

Likewise, the U.S. started training Polish aviators to operate the F-35 in May at Ebbing Air National Guard Base in Arkansas. 

All crew members participating in the flyover are American. Those flying the F-16 aircraft are from the D.C. Air National Guard based out of Joint Base Andrews in Maryland, and the F-35 pilots are from Tyndall Air Force Base in Florida. 

A missing man formation occurs during a flyover when one aircraft breaks off from the rest, recognizing the missing or fallen service member. 

This isn’t the first time a flyover has occurred when the Polish president has visited the White House. One was also conducted in 2019 during Trump’s first term when then-Polish President Andrzej Duda arrived in Washington. 

Nawrocki’s visit comes as Russian President Vladimir Putin has escalated his attacks against Ukraine, despite a meeting in August with Trump in Anchorage, Alaska, in an attempt to advance a peace deal. 

Meanwhile, the Trump administration has sought to work with European allies in recent weeks on nailing down various security guarantees for Ukraine to safeguard against Russian aggression again. 

While Trump initially said a trilateral meeting with both Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy was in the works following his meeting with Putin, Russia has shown disinterest in such a meeting.

As a result, Trump said Tuesday there would be consequences if Putin failed to meet with Zelenskyy. 

‘We’re going to see what happens,’ Trump told reporters Tuesday. ‘We’re going to see what they do and what happens. I’m watching it very closely … I want to see it end.’ 

Nawrocki is slated to arrive at the White House at 11 a.m. Eastern Daylight Time. 

A lawyer representing victims of Jeffrey Epstein said Wednesday that the American public is ‘going to be appalled’ about documents relating to the disgraced late financier that have not been released by the federal government. 

‘The government has mistreated them after Jeffrey Epstein mistreated them,’ Bradley Edwards said of the victims in Washington, D.C.

Edwards spoke during a news conference that is part of an effort by Reps. Ro Khanna, D-Calif., and Thomas Massie, R-Ky., to pass through the House a procedural motion known as a discharge petition, which could force a House vote urging the Justice Department to release the Epstein files. 

‘We filed lawsuits against Jeffrey Epstein, against his estate and against two financial institutions – JP Morgan and Deutsche Bank – that prove that they provided, knowingly provided the financial infrastructure for a sex trafficking operation. Unfortunately, all of the documents and evidence that we have worked so hard to gather hide behind protective orders, confidentiality agreements and bank secrecy laws,’ Edwards said.

‘That is why this discharge petition is so important. While we have seen the documents, you haven’t, and when you see the documents, you’re going to be appalled, and the American people deserve to see everything,’ he added.

‘When you sign this discharge petition, it should mean nothing is off limits. The documents in the possession of the CIA should be made available. Those in the possession of the FBI going back decades should be made available. The SEC financial records… should be made available,’ Edwards continued, as he stood alongside the victims. 

‘Everybody knows that evil flourishes in the darkness. Corruption flourishes in secrecy. It is time right now to make a difference for the women that are behind me right now,’ Edwards added. 

President Donald Trump on Wednesday called the push to release files relating to Jeffrey Epstein ‘a Democrat hoax because they’re trying to get people to talk about something that’s totally irrelevant to the success that we’ve had as a nation since I’ve been president.’ 

‘I understand that we were subpoenaed to give files, and I understand we’ve given thousands of pages of files. And I know that no matter what you do, it’s going to keep going,’ Trump told reporters at the White House. ‘And really I think it’s enough because I think we should talk about the greatness of our country and the success that we’re having. I think we’re probably having, according to what I read, even from two people in this room, we’re having the most successful eight months of any president ever. And that’s what I want to talk about. That’s what we should be talking about, not the Epstein hoax.’ 

Epstein died in prison six years ago while awaiting federal charges related to sex trafficking.

‘This is not a hoax. This is real. There are real survivors,’ Massie said earlier. ‘There are real victims to this criminal enterprise, and the perpetrators are being protected because they’re rich and powerful and political donors to the establishment here in Washington, D.C. So today we’re standing with the survivors, and we’re giving them a voice.’ 

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., also said Wednesday that ‘the women behind me have never received justice.’

‘And do you want to know why? It’s because Jeffrey Epstein somehow was able to walk among the most rich, powerful people, not only in America, but foreign countries. Yesterday I heard countries like Saudi Arabia, Russia and even Israel and other countries,’ Greene said. ‘The truth needs to come out, and the government holds the truth that the cases that are sealed hold the truth. Jeffrey Epstein’s estate holds the truth. The FBI, the DOJ, and the CIA holds the truth. And the truth we are demanding.’

Epstein victim Jena-Lisa Jones said Wednesday that she ‘was only 14 years old when my friend brought me over to Jeffrey Epstein’s house in Palm Beach in 2003.’

‘I always did my best in school, and I had such a positive outlook on life,’ she said. ‘Until that day that I met Jeffrey, I have never been more scared in my life than I was that first time that he hurt me. I remember crying the entire way home, thinking about how I couldn’t ever tell anyone about what actually happened in that house.’

‘It was really hard for me to find my voice and to become strong enough to speak about my abuse,’ she also said, thanking Massie and Khanna for hosting her. ‘Together, we can finally make a change. And that is thanks to the people like these two Congressmen and their teams who actually care about the victims.’

Jones also appealed to President Donald Trump directly. 

‘If you are a member of Congress and you are listening to all of us speak here today, please really listen to us. Please vote for this bill to be passed,’ Jones said. ‘Please, President Trump, pass this bill and help us. Make us feel like our voices are finally being heard.’ 

Another Epstein victim, Lisa Phillips, said Wednesday that ‘us Epstein survivors have been discussing creating our own list.’ 

‘We know the names. Many of us were abused by them. Now, together as survivors, we will confidentially compile the names we all know, who were regularly in the Epstein world. And it will be done by survivors and for survivors. No one else is involved. Stay tuned for more details,’ she said.

Another victim, Anouska de Georgiou, said she ‘was abused by Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell for over ten years.

‘Ghislaine Maxwell was present for some of my abuse at the hand of Jeffrey Epstein. She was present. She was complicit. She was enabling. And it is appalling and disgusting. And it’s one of my worst nightmares… the possibility that is very much going around that she might be pardoned. This is not okay, guys. This is not okay.’

Fox News Digital’s Paul Steinhauser and Elizabeth Elkind contributed to this report.

The House Budget Committee has begun having early discussions on a second Republican megabill, eyeing more potential reforms to Medicaid, sources told Fox News Digital.

Republicans on the panel are expected to hold closed-door talks in the coming days, as lawmakers return from the August recess, three people familiar with the matter said. 

Two sources familiar with discussions said the committee has begun early talk on mapping out further reforms to Medicaid, including revisiting and modifying measures that did not make the Senate’s final version of the bill. 

‘I think you can kind of put this puzzle together, but I think we were talking about things that last time didn’t go through,’ one person said.

Rep. Ralph Norman, R-S.C., said committee Republicans would meet this week to discuss ‘Medicaid reform.’

‘Same thing we debated before, same thing that we were fighting for,’ Norman told Fox News Digital. ‘I don’t know that the appetite is there right now, but we’ll see.’

Rep. Jodey Arrington, R-Texas, chair of the House Budget Committee, confirmed to Fox News Digital that his panel had begun laying the groundwork for a second reconciliation package.

‘Reversing the curse is a continuous effort when you’re $36-plus trillion in the hole,’ Arrington said, referencing the national debt. ‘It’s going to take more than one reconciliation bill to get out of it. So that process is underway.’

He added that details remain fluid, with ongoing talks between his committee and leaders of other House panels on what should be included.

When asked about Medicaid specifically, Arrington said he supported proposals potentially blocking federal dollars from covering transgender medical procedures and from going to illegal immigrants.

‘I’d be shocked if those don’t go back in, in some form,’ he said. ‘They also happen to be 80-20 issues, like 80% of the American people would expect that that already happens and are shocked that it’s not happening.’

Arrington suggested that more contentious ideas, such as altering the federal-state cost sharing ratio for Medicaid — known as FMAP — would likely not be central to the new bill. Conservative Republicans had pushed for changes to FMAP during the first reconciliation effort, but the proposal divided the party.

‘I guess the two big ones would be the transgender procedures and then prohibiting states from using federal funding, which is fungible, to support their extending Medicaid services to illegals. Those are absolutely two that should be included,’ Arrington said. 

‘The FMAP is, it’s unfortunately an unfair situation set up by Democrats through the Obamacare expansion, and I think a lot of members feel like it should be addressed. But again, it was debated, and it wasn’t included in the first one, so I don’t know how much time we’ll be spending on it.’

Republicans have long argued that Medicaid is plagued by waste, fraud, and abuse, framing reforms as necessary to protect benefits for the most vulnerable.

Any final decisions on policy related to Medicaid would have to go through the House Energy & Commerce Committee, which has jurisdiction over federal healthcare programs. 

A spokesperson for that committee told Fox News Digital, ‘Energy and Commerce Republicans have not proposed policies to be considered for a potential second reconciliation effort.’

The first reconciliation bill — signed into law on July 4 — advanced several of President Donald Trump’s campaign priorities, including tax cuts on tipped and overtime wages, increased immigration enforcement, and rollbacks of green energy initiatives.

Trump branded the package his ‘one big, beautiful bill,’ though he later sought to shift that to reflect its middle- and working-class tax relief. The legislation also imposed 20-hour-per-week requirements for some able-bodied adults on Medicaid and strengthened work requirements for federal food benefits.

The White House has not been making a public push for a second bill, however.

Democrats have seized on the GOP’s Medicaid proposals as a political weapon, accusing Republicans of pushing millions off the program to fund tax breaks for the wealthy. GOP lawmakers have pushed back on that charge and even accused Democrats of lying about the bill.

The path forward remains uncertain, however, with skepticism about whether both chambers have the appetite for another reconciliation bill. 

The first package, though a major GOP victory, took months of negotiation and internal wrangling.

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., declined to directly assess the odds of a second reconciliation bill when asked Tuesday.

‘If we’re going to go down the road of a second reconciliation bill, we suggest cancel the healthcare cuts and save our hospitals,’ Jeffries said. ‘That should be the focus of a second reconciliation bill. It’s something that Democrats will broadly support.’

Budget reconciliation allows the party in power to pass vast pieces of policy legislation while sidelining opposition, in this case Democrats, by lowering the Senate’s passage threshold from 60 votes to 51. It can only be used three times in a single congressional term.

Leading members of President Donald Trump’s political team met Wednesday behind closed doors with House Republicans to offer what’s being described as a ‘clear and simple’ message to sell the GOP’s sweeping domestic policy package to Americans.

The sales pitch, from top Trump pollster Tony Fabrizio, senior Trump political aide James Blair, and White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt, is part of an ongoing effort by the president and his team to rebrand the massive tax cuts and spending measure, which polls indicate isn’t popular with Americans.

‘The best marketer out there is our president,’ National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) chair Rep. Richard Hudson of North Carolina told Fox News’ Aishah Hasnie following the meeting.

Hudson noted that Trump ‘used the name One Big Beautiful Bill to help get it passed. And now, to try and explain to the American people, he’s suggesting we call it the Working Families Tax Cut, which is exactly what it is. It’s a big component of it.’

But the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) argued that ‘the so-called rebrand of the Big, Ugly Law is an admission that the GOP’s signature legislative ‘achievement’ is a toxic failure.’

‘Only Republicans seem surprised that ripping away health care and gutting rural hospitals just to hand billionaires a massive tax break is completely out of step with what the American people want,’ DCCC spokesperson Justin Chermol claimed in a statement to Fox News Digital.

The package narrowly passed through the Republican-controlled Congress earlier this summer, nearly entirely along party lines, and Trump signed it into law during a July 4 ceremony at the White House.

For months, Trump touted his Big Beautiful Bill, but at a Cabinet meeting last week he seemed to acknowledge the difficult sales job he and his party face.

‘I’m not going to use the term great, big, beautiful – that was good for getting it approved, but it’s not good for explaining to people what it’s really about,’ Trump said.

And he described the package as a ‘major tax cut for workers.’

The measure is stuffed full of Trump’s 2024 campaign trail promises and second-term priorities on tax cuts, immigration, defense, energy and the debt limit. 

It includes extending the president’s signature 2017 tax cuts, which were set to expire later this year, and eliminating taxes on tips and overtime pay. 

The shift in branding that Trump noted last week has already been reflected by Vice President JD Vance, who has been stopping in key 2026 midterm states to sell the measure.

At his earlier stops on his tour, Vance called the package the ‘One Big Beautiful Bill.’ But the vice president now refers to the measure repeatedly as the ‘Working Families Tax Cut.’

The package also provides billions for border security and codifies the president’s sweeping and controversial immigration crackdown.

And the new law also restructures Medicaid — the almost 60-year-old federal program that provides health coverage to roughly 71 million low-income Americans. 

The changes to Medicaid, as well as cuts to food stamps, another one of the nation’s major safety net programs, were drafted in part as an offset to pay for extending Trump’s tax cuts. The measure includes a slew of new rules and regulations, including work requirements for many of those seeking Medicaid coverage.

The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office estimates the new law could result in roughly 10 million people losing health coverage, and $3.4 trillion added to the nation’s already massive federal deficit. Republicans dispute those projections.

Regardless, some Republican House members who’ve held town halls this summer have faced vocal constituents angry over the social safety net cuts in the GOP’s measure.

And Democrats for months have repeatedly blasted Republicans over those social safety net changes. They charge it will gut Medicaid, forcing rural hospitals and nursing homes to close their doors. 

‘Rural hospitals were already on the brink of collapse thanks to Donald Trump, but now he has put the last nail in the coffin for rural hospitals with his billionaire budget bill,’ Democratic National Committee (DNC) chair Ken Martin claimed.

Republicans have pushed back on the Democrats’ criticism.

‘Overall, most people’s awareness comes from the lies they’ve heard from Democrats and our mainstream media. But when they hear the details of what’s in the actual bill, it’s very, very popular,’ Hudson told Fox News.

According to sources in the room, the president’s political advisers urged House Republicans to court low-propensity Trump voters who supported the president in 2024 but traditionally don’t turn out for midterm elections. 

The GOP is aiming to defend its fragile House majority in next year’s midterms, when the party in power normally faces political headwinds and ends up losing congressional seats. 

‘We got a lot of good information about where voters are on the working families tax cuts,’ Hudson said.

And the NRCC chair highlighted, ‘There’s a segment of our voting population that only vote in presidential elections. There’s also a very specific group that show up for President Trump.’

‘I don’t need all of them to show up, but I need some of them to show up. And the good news is, we know who they are. We know what they care about. And the message today was, communicate with them and let them know what we’re doing,’ Hudson said.