House Dems Ose Gop on Epstein files with an attempted assignment from the Ministry of Justice

The Democrats of a subcommittee of the powerful committee of the House house made a motion for the summons Wednesday afternoon, only a few hours before the room ended its work session in July and left Washington for a month break.

The republican president of the subcommittee, the representative Clay Higgins of Louisiana, postponed a vote on the issue until the end of the meeting. Although several Panel Republicans are members of a right -wing faction and called on the publication of files, it was not clear if they would vote for the assignment.

During a brief break from Reunion, Higgins told journalists that he expected the request for the assignment to pass with some changes.

“If the Republican Party, if our colleagues from this committee do not join us in this vote, when they are essentially, is to join President Donald Trump in complicity,” said representative Summer Lee, the Pennsylvanie Democrat who made the motion for relaxation, told journalists outside the audience room.

This decision of the Democrats showed how they did almost everything in their power to force the Republicans to act on Epstein files. The president of the room Mike Johnson – taken between Trump’s requests and claim his own members so that the room acts – resisted calls for action and prepared to send the house to the house a day earlier.

Johnson told journalists earlier on Wednesday that it was not necessary to vote on the legislation calling for the release of Epstein files this week because the Trump administration “is already doing everything in their power to release them.”

However, the Democrats delighted this week by pressing the Republicans to support the publication of the files. Their efforts have interrupted the GOP legislative program for the week and have turned attention to a problem that Trump implored his supporters without success.

“They flee our work, our work and send us home because they do not want to vote to publish these files. This is something on which they have run. This is something they talked about: the importance of transparency, the holding of responsible pedophiles,” said Lee.

Democratic leaders hope to make the problem on much more than Epstein, who died in his New York prison cell six years ago while waiting for a sex trafficking trial.

“Why didn’t the Republicans publish Epstein files to the American people?” So everything is connected. ”

This occurs while the two parties are preparing to take their messages to voters on Trump’s Trump’s big tax lounge and expense discounts. For the Republicans, it is a “beautiful” legislation that will arouse economic growth; For Democrats, it is a “ugly” gift mainly to the richest Americans who undermine health care for low -income people.

However, as Furor developed on the right on the overthrow of the Trump administration on promises linked to Epstein, several Democrats have taken the opportunity to divide the Republicans on the issue.

“It goes to a fundamental sense of” our government is co-opted by rich and powerful people who do not seek ordinary Americans? Or can we have a government that watches over ordinary Americans? “” Said representative Ro Khanna, a California democrat who proposed a bipartite bill intended to force the release of files.

Republican leaders accuse Democrats to worry about the purely political gain. They underline that the Ministry of Justice has retained the Epstein investigation through the presidency of the Democrat Joe Biden.

Trump’s Ministry of Justice also requests the release of testimonies from the secret jury procedures in the Epstein case, although this effort probably does not produce new revelations.

The chamber’s supervisory committee, with the support of the Republicans, also advanced on Tuesday a summons to the former Epstein girlfriend, Ghislaine Maxwell, for a deposition.

However, legislators who wish that Congress plays a stronger role in Epstein files warned that Maxwell, which is serving a prison sentence for helping Epstein to sexually abuse minor girls, can be an unreliable witness.

“This is a good idea, but it is not enough. It is not enough,” said representative Thomas Massie, a Kentucky republican who pushed the Bipartite bill to write the files of the Ministry of Justice.