Overview

• A bipartisan discharge petition to force a House vote on releasing Justice Department files has 215 signatures and needs 218, with Reps. Thomas Massie, Ro Khanna, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Nancy Mace and Lauren Boebert backing it.
• The House Oversight Committee posted 33,295 pages from the DOJ this week, but much of the material was already public and roughly one third of the expected total has been provided.
• Epstein survivors held a Capitol news conference urging transparency and disputing the claim that the push for records is a political 'hoax.'
• Lawmakers are expected to begin receiving additional materials from the Epstein estate starting Sept. 8, reportedly including a 'birthday book' of letters from friends.
• A White House message warned Republicans that supporting the discharge petition would be a 'very hostile act,' while Speaker Mike Johnson asserted Trump acted as an FBI informant, a claim not corroborated by DOJ or FBI records.