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Survivors Rally as Bipartisan Bid Seeks House Vote to Release Epstein Files

The White House opposes a discharge petition that would mandate publication of unclassified DOJ records.

Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., center left, and House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., talk to reporters after a closed-door meeting with victims in the Jeffrey Epstein sex trafficking case investigation, at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, Sept. 2, 2025. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
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Teresa Helm, a Jeffrey Epstein abuse survivor, speaks at the Stand with Survivors Rally at the U.S. Capitol on Sept. 3. Photo: Roberto Schmidt/AFP via Getty Images.
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Overview

  • Reps. Thomas Massie and Ro Khanna filed a discharge petition to force a vote requiring the attorney general to release all unclassified Justice Department files on Jeffrey Epstein.
  • The petition needs 218 signatures to advance; as of Sept. 3 only four Republicans — Massie, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Lauren Boebert and Nancy Mace — had signed while Democrats are widely expected to support it.
  • The House Oversight Committee posted 33,295 DOJ pages on Sept. 2 that lawmakers and advocates say contain little new material, though the release includes videos and audio from the 2005–2006 investigation.
  • President Donald Trump called the transparency push a “Democrat hoax,” and a White House official warned Republicans that backing the petition would be viewed as a “very hostile act” toward the administration.
  • Speaker Mike Johnson labeled the petition “inartfully drafted” and “moot” given the committee’s review, as Epstein survivors at a Capitol event urged Congress to require a full, public release.