Epstein maltreatment subsister Lisa Phillips speaks during a quality league with lawmakers connected the Epstein Files Transparency Act extracurricular the U.S. Capitol connected November 18, 2025 successful Washington, DC.
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The House connected Tuesday is expected to ballot to bid the Department of Justice to merchandise each of its files connected notorious enactment offender Jeffrey Epstein, 2 days aft President Donald Trump abruptly dropped his absorption to the bipartisan bill.
The measurement is acceptable to travel up during the chamber's archetypal ballot bid of the time astir 2 p.m. ET, NBC News reported.
"Almost everybody" volition ballot to walk it, House Majority Whip Tom Emmer, R-Minn., told NBC connected Monday night.
That wasn't ever the case. The propulsion to merchandise the Epstein files had faced absorption from GOP lawmakers, pursuing the pb of Trump, whose White House had warned that backing the effort would beryllium considered a "hostile act."
A discharge petition that would person forced a ballot connected the measure was jammed up during the authorities shutdown, arsenic House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., kept representatives retired of league for astir 8 weeks. The prolonged lack delayed the swearing-in of Democratic Rep. Adelita Grijalva of Arizona, the last signature needed to determination the petition forward.
The shutdown ended past Wednesday and Grijalva, aft being sworn in, signed the discharge petition. But, with unit mounting, Johnson said helium would bring the Epstein measure to a ballot earlier than expected.
The measure from Republican Rep. Thomas Massie of Kentucky and Democratic Rep. Ro Khanna of California is being brought to the level nether a process that volition necessitate a two-thirds bulk to pass. If it succeeds, it volition caput to the Senate.
Trump, a erstwhile person of Epstein's who had a falling retired with him years earlier, said connected the run way that helium would enactment releasing the government's files from its investigations into the affluent and well-connected financier. Epstein died successful jailhouse successful 2019 portion facing national enactment trafficking charges.
But Trump's DOJ said successful a July 6 memo that it had conducted an "exhaustive review" of Epstein-related matters and determined "that nary further disclosure would beryllium due oregon warranted."
That determination, and Trump's repeated insistence that the absorption connected Epstein was a Democratic "hoax," has spurred outrage crossed the governmental spectrum, including from immoderate of Trump's ain supporters.
The House Oversight Committee past week released thousands of documents from Epstein's estate, including emails appearing to amusement Epstein discussing Trump.
Trump connected Sunday nighttime abruptly reversed course, urging House Republicans to ballot successful favour of the Epstein files bill.
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