Overview
- Speaker Mike Johnson said he will bring the measure to the floor next week, accelerating the schedule that would normally follow a discharge petition’s waiting period.
- All House Democrats and four Republicans — Thomas Massie, Lauren Boebert, Nancy Mace and Marjorie Taylor Greene — signed the petition, which was filed by Massie and Democrat Ro Khanna.
- The White House pressed Republicans to back off, including calls to Boebert and Mace and a Situation Room meeting with Boebert and senior officials Pam Bondi and Kash Patel, but the signees held firm.
- House Oversight Democrats released emails from Epstein’s estate referencing President Trump, while Oversight Republicans published about 20,000 pages of estate documents as part of their probe.
- The legislation would direct the Justice Department to release unclassified Epstein-related records, but even if it passes the House, it faces uncertain prospects in the Senate and could face a presidential veto.