Overview

• House Oversight released 33,295 pages received from the Justice Department, a first tranche that included prior case records and videos, with committee Democrats saying roughly 97% was already public and noting limited new material such as CBP flight‑location logs.
• Epstein survivors met privately with lawmakers and then spoke at a Capitol news conference, urging passage of the Epstein Files Transparency Act to force release of all unclassified DOJ, FBI and U.S. attorney records.
• Reps. Thomas Massie and Ro Khanna initiated a discharge petition to compel a House vote on the bill, and as of Wednesday four Republicans — Massie, Lauren Boebert, Nancy Mace and Marjorie Taylor Greene — had signed on.
• House Speaker Mike Johnson called the petition inartfully drafted and unnecessary given the committee’s work, a White House official warned GOP support would be viewed as a hostile act, and President Trump labeled the push a “Democrat hoax.”
• The Oversight panel says additional DOJ records are forthcoming with redactions to protect victims, and its probe continues under subpoenas to the Justice Department and Epstein’s estate as well as a deposition subpoena to Ghislaine Maxwell.