On March 4, 2026, the Republican-led House of Representatives voted 212-219 to reject a War Powers Resolution that would have required the Trump administration to seek congressional approval before continuing military operations against Iran. The narrow margin — a seven-vote spread — underscored the …
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On March 3, 2026, the Senate voted on a bipartisan War Powers Resolution introduced by Senator Tim Kaine (D-VA) and co-led by Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and Senator Adam Schiff (D-CA). The resolution, which had been introduced on January 29, 2026 - weeks before the strikes began - sought …
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Attorney General Pam Bondi’s February 11, 2026, testimony before the House Judiciary Committee devolved into what observers called “some of the tensest and most combative testimony seen to date from a Trump Cabinet official,” marked by personal attacks against lawmakers and refusal …
During a House Judiciary Committee hearing on February 11, 2026, Attorney General Pam Bondi was photographed by Reuters and Agence France-Presse with a document in her binder titled “Jayapal Pramila Search History.” The sheet listed at least eight different files from DOJ’s Epstein …
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Beginning February 9, 2026, the Department of Justice allowed members of Congress to view unredacted Epstein files in a reading room at DOJ headquarters, but only under highly restrictive conditions designed to limit meaningful oversight. Assistant Attorney General Patrick Davis’s February 6 …
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The Department of Justice released over 3 million additional pages, 180,000 images, and 2,000 videos of Epstein-related materials, bringing the total public release to approximately 3.5 million pages. Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche declared the release marked “the end of a very …
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U.S. District Judge Paul Engelmayer ruled that Representatives Thomas Massie and Ro Khanna cannot append their demand for a court-appointed special master to the Ghislaine Maxwell criminal case to force DOJ compliance with the Epstein Files Transparency Act. The judge largely agreed with the Justice …
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Representatives Thomas Massie (R-KY) and Ro Khanna (D-CA), co-authors of the Epstein Files Transparency Act, asked U.S. District Judge Paul Engelmayer to appoint a ‘special master and independent monitor’ to oversee the DOJ’s document release. In their letter to the court, they …
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Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer confirmed that the Department of Justice had violated the Epstein Files Transparency Act’s requirement to report to Congress within 15 days. The law required DOJ to provide: (1) all categories of information released and withheld, (2) a summary of any …
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The Department of Justice announced it was now reviewing 5.2 million pages of Epstein-related documents, up from the 1 million additional documents announced on Christmas Eve. DOJ enlisted 400 attorneys from criminal and national security divisions, plus U.S. attorneys’ offices in Florida and …
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On Christmas Eve, the Department of Justice announced it had discovered over 1 million additional FBI documents related to Jeffrey Epstein, representing an ’extraordinary about-face’ from the Trump administration’s July 2025 position when FBI and DOJ indicated in an unsigned memo …
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Lawmakers from both parties immediately condemned the Department of Justice’s December 19, 2025 Epstein files release as violating the Epstein Files Transparency Act, which had passed the House 427-1 and the Senate by unanimous consent before President Trump signed it into law on November 19, …
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On November 19, 2025, President Donald Trump signed the Epstein Files Transparency Act into law, announcing on Truth Social: “I HAVE JUST SIGNED THE BILL TO RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES!” The announcement came one day after the House passed the bill 427-1 and the Senate approved it …
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On November 18, 2025, the House of Representatives voted 427-1 to pass the Epstein Files Transparency Act, delivering a stunning bipartisan rebuke to President Trump’s months-long opposition to transparency. The only dissenting vote came from Representative Clay Higgins (R-LA), a Trump …
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The House of Representatives passes the Epstein Files Transparency Act by a vote of 427-1, forcing the Department of Justice to release all unclassified Jeffrey Epstein files within 30 days. Only Rep. Clay Higgins (R-LA) votes against.
The bill reached the floor through a rare successful discharge …
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On Friday, November 15, 2025, Attorney General Pam Bondi announced via X (formerly Twitter) that she had ordered a new federal investigation into Jeffrey Epstein’s ties to Trump political opponents, assigning Manhattan U.S. Attorney Jay Clayton to lead the probe. The announcement came just …
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On November 13, 2025, Rep.-Elect Adelita Grijalva (D-AZ) was sworn in to the House of Representatives at 4:00 PM, becoming the 218th and final signature needed on the Epstein Files Transparency Act discharge petition. The signature remained valid through the end of the legislative day despite …
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Rep.-Elect Adelita Grijalva (D-AZ) was sworn in to the House of Representatives at 4:00 PM on November 12, 2025, seven weeks after winning a special election on September 23, 2025. Upon swearing-in, she is expected to sign the Epstein Files Transparency Act discharge petition as the 218th and final …
Representative Thomas Massie (R-KY) filed a discharge petition on the first day the House was back in session after August recess to force a floor vote on H.R. 4405, the Epstein Files Transparency Act he had introduced with Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) in July 2025. A discharge petition bypasses the …
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House Speaker Mike Johnson abruptly sends Congress into early summer recess on July 23, 2025, specifically to prevent a vote on the Epstein Files Transparency Act discharge petition led by Representatives Thomas Massie (R-KY) and Ro Khanna (D-CA). The petition had gained bipartisan momentum …
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On July 12, 2025, five days after the Department of Justice released a memo stating no Jeffrey Epstein “client list” existed—contradicting Attorney General Pam Bondi’s February claim that the list was “sitting on my desk”—President Donald Trump attacked his own …
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On July 12, 2025, five days after the Department of Justice released a memo stating no Jeffrey Epstein “client list” existed—contradicting Attorney General Pam Bondi’s February claim that the list was “sitting on my desk”—President Donald Trump attacked his own …
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