Overview
- Congress passed the Epstein Files Transparency Act by overwhelming margins, with the House voting 427–1 and the Senate approving it by unanimous consent.
- Attorney General Pam Bondi said the Justice Department will publish unclassified Epstein-related records within 30 days and pledged to follow the law with maximum transparency.
- The statute allows redactions for victims’ identities, child sexual abuse material, classified content and information that could jeopardize active investigations, and it requires written justifications within 15 days of release.
- Trump reversed prior opposition before signing the bill and has directed probes of several Democrats, a move legal observers say could trigger the active‑investigation exception and shape what is withheld.
- Officials describe a vast cache that includes internal communications, flight logs, travel records, emails and large volumes of sensitive images and video, with tens of thousands of pages already circulating in Congress and uncertainty over how much the public will see.