Overview
- The House approved the Epstein Files Transparency Act 427-1, and the Senate cleared it by unanimous consent, moving the bill to President Trump after months of stalemate.
- Trump reversed prior opposition and said he will sign the legislation, even as allies sparred publicly over the push and House leaders tried to slow or amend it.
- The law directs the Justice Department to publish unclassified records tied to Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell within 30 days of enactment in a searchable format.
- Exceptions allow redacting victims’ identities and withholding material that could jeopardize active federal investigations, raising uncertainty over how much will be released.
- Survivors and a bipartisan group of lawmakers used a discharge petition to force the vote following House Oversight’s release of thousands of Epstein estate documents that referenced numerous public figures, including Trump.