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The Rastriya Swatantra Party (RSP) and the Rastriya Prajatantra Party (RPP) continued the House meeting over the visit visa scam today also.

Both parties accused the government of only forming a general administrative committee to investigate the issue, instead of a parliamentary committee or a high-level commission as they are demanding.

Once the session convened, lawmaker Sobhita Gautam of RSP informed the House that the party's protest would continue until their demand was addressed.

She also questioned the government's 'intention' in forming the administrative committee to probe the matter which is, as she argued, about human trafficking and capable of hurting the nation's image. "We continue to boycott the House as the government has turned indifferent to our demand."

RPP's Anisha Nepali also warned that the party would keep boycotting the House until a high-level commission is formed to investigate the visit visa scam. 

She also took time to draw the government to the prompt urgency to ensure adequate compensation to the citizens affected by the recent incidents of natural disasters, expressing sorrow over the significant losses of lives and property in disasters.

Once the lawmakers put their views, other members in the lower house representing these parties walked out of the meeting hall.

United States President Donald Trump has said his administration will send more weapons to Ukraine after an earlier decision to halt some arms shipments drew condemnation from Kyiv and its supporters, Aljazeera reported.

Speaking to reporters ahead of a dinner with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Washington, DC on Monday, Trump said the new shipments would be primarily comprised of “defensive weapons”.

“We’re going to send some more weapons. We have to. They have to be able to defend themselves,” Trump said.

President Donald Trump said on Tuesday he had approved sending U.S. defensive weapons to Ukraine and was considering additional sanctions on Moscow, underscoring his frustration with Russian President Vladimir Putin over the growing death toll in Russia's war with Ukraine, Reuters reported.

Trump, who pledged as a presidential candidate to end the war within a day, has not been able to follow through on that promise and efforts by his administration to broker peace have come up short.

Trump directed his ire at Putin on Tuesday during a meeting with cabinet officials at the White House.

"I'm not happy with Putin. I can tell you that much right now," Trump said, noting that Russian and Ukrainian soldiers were dying in the thousands.

"We get a lot of bullshit thrown at us by Putin ... He's very nice all the time, but it turns out to be meaningless," Trump said, according to Reuters.

The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday cleared the way for Donald Trump's administration to pursue mass government job cuts and the sweeping downsizing of numerous agencies, a decision that could lead to tens of thousands of layoffs while dramatically reshaping the federal bureaucracy, Reuters reported.

Tuesday's ruling stemmed from an executive order Trump issued in February ordering agencies to prepare for mass layoffs. At Trump's direction, the administration has come up with plans to reduce staff at the U.S. Departments of Agriculture, Commerce, Health and Human Services, State, Treasury, Veterans Affairs and more than a dozen other agencies.

In a brief unsigned order, the court said the Trump administration was "likely to succeed" in its argument that his directives were legally within his power.

The decision is the latest win for Trump's broader efforts to consolidate power in the executive branch. The Supreme Court has sided with Trump in several cases on an emergency basis since he returned to office in January, including clearing the way for implementation of some of his hardline immigration policies, according to Reuters.