A former GOP analyst floated a theory about President Donald Trump's relationship with disgraced financier and convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein after a new tranche of documents was released on Wednesday.

Lawmakers on the House Oversight Committee released emails between Epstein and his associate, Ghislaine Maxwell, describing Trump spending time with one of Epstein's victims at Epstein's home. The email, which is from 2011, also adds a curious note that Trump has not been named by the "police chief, etc." That line piqued the interest of Tim Miller, host of "The Bulwark Podcast," who discussed it during a new episode on Wednesday evening.

"I read that as, 'Why hasn't he been mentioned?' Like these other conspirators mentioned," Miller said. "Is he a rat? That's what I read this as: Is he a rat?"

Other experts have speculated that the emails show Trump was aware of Epstein's activities, yet continued to socialize with him anyway.

The documents also renewed calls from lawmakers on both sides of the aise to release all of the Epstein files.

President Donald Trump signed a bill late Wednesday to end the longest government shutdown in U.S. history.

The shutdown lasted 43 days as Democrats and Republicans could not agree on a temporary funding deal to reopen the government. Seven Democrats and an independent who caucuses with them recently broke ranks to vote with Republicans on a series of short-term spending bills to keep the government open through January in exchange for a vote on the expiring Affordable Care Act subsidies in December. However, Republicans like Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) already appear to be walking back that promise.

The negotiations also caused an uproar within the Democratic caucus, with some calling for Sen. Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) to face a primary challenge in 2026.

Ending the shutdown also renewed the fight to release the case files from the investigation into disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein. Earlier in the day, lawmakers released a tranche of documents that included decade-old emails that undercut some of Trump's claims about their relationship.

Despite the Trump administration's overwhelming hostility to immigrants, there is one particular immigration issue that is triggering a civil war in the White House between President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance, wrote the conservative Wall Street Journal editorial board.

The issue involves H-1B visas, the program that allows highly skilled workers to enter the country and is widely used by the tech industry. This issue already fractured the MAGA base when tech billionaire Elon Musk, then still at the White House, pushed it to the forefront. But it never really went away, the board wrote.

"Mr. Trump made his views clear in an interview Tuesday with Laura Ingraham, a longtime opponent of immigration," wrote the board. "Asking about curbs on H-1B visas for high-skilled workers, the Fox News host told the President that 'if you want to raise wages for American workers, you can’t flood the country with tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of foreign workers.'" Trump, however, disagreed, saying, "you also do have to bring in talent," and “You don’t have certain talents, and people have to learn. You can’t take people off an unemployment line and say ‘I’m going to put you into a factory where you’re going to make missiles.’”

He even criticized his own administration's raid on South Korean nationals at a battery plant in Georgia earlier this year.

Vance, however, feels differently.

“My honest view is that, right now, America, thanks in part to the Biden border invasion, but also thanks in part to a lot of bad immigration policy, right now, we have let in too many immigrants,” he said at a recent Turning Point USA event, adding that legal immigrants are “undercutting the wages of American workers.”

This is wrong, the board wrote.

"On wages, Mr. Vance is repeating the lump of labor fallacy that American and foreign workers compete for a limited number of jobs," said the board. "Studies have generally found that immigration raises average wages and employment of native-born workers, in part because their work is complementary. Economists from the University of California, Davis, last year calculated that immigrants increased wages for less educated native workers by 1.7% to 2.6% between 2000 and 2019."

"For all of his campaigning against illegal immigration, Mr. Trump understands that America needs the world’s strivers to continue to prosper," the board concluded. "Perhaps he can make that case to his young apprentice."