Overview
- House Speaker Mike Johnson said the chamber will vote next week on a bill requiring the Justice Department to publish all unclassified Epstein and Maxwell records.
- Newly sworn-in Rep. Adelita Grijalva provided the decisive 218th signature on a bipartisan discharge petition that compels the House to take up the measure.
- Epstein survivors and relatives of Virginia Giuffre sent a letter urging full disclosure, joined by four women who have accused President Donald Trump of inappropriate conduct.
- Democrats released emails in which Epstein claimed Trump “knew about the girls” and referenced time with a victim, while Republicans posted roughly 20,000 related documents.
- The White House rejected the Democratic release as politicized, Republicans identified the redacted victim as Giuffre, and Trump warned GOP lawmakers the bill is a “trap.”