A House Oversight panel voted on Wednesday to subpoena files regarding deceased sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and testimony from former President Bill Clinton, his wife and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, and several ex-law enforcement leaders.
NBC News <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-administration/live-blog/trump-epstein-tariffs-immigration-china-obama-live-updates-rcna219816/rcrd85354?canonicalCard=true" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> the Federal Law Enforcement Subcommittee passed a motion from Rep. Summer Lee (D-PA) to issue a subpoena to the Department of Justice (DOJ) for records from Epstein-related investigations.
&#8220;The American people deserve transparency and accountability, and his victims deserve justice,&#8221; Lee <a href="https://x.com/RepSummerLee/status/1948134908712362135" target="_blank" rel="noopener">declared</a> in a post on X. &#8220;The wealthy and powerful are not above the law.&#8221;
Reps. Nancy Mace (R-SC), Scott Perry (R-PA) and Brian Jack (R-GA) joined with five Democrats in approving the measure. Subcommittee Chairman Clay Higgins (R-LA) and Rep. Andy Biggs (R-AZ) voted against it.
As noted by <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5416843-epstein-doj-investigation-subpoenas/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Hill</a>, Mace <a href="https://x.com/NancyMace/status/1948150481345556519" target="_blank" rel="noopener">succeeded</a> in amending the motion to ensure that the identities of victims, personally identifying information, and possible child sexual abuse material are redacted.
The panel also voted to approve a motion from Perry to subpoena the Clintons, former FBI Directors James Comey and Robert Mueller, and former Attorneys General Merrick Garland, Eric Holder, William Barr, Loretta Lynch, Jeff Sessions, and Alberto Gonzales.
Further, lawmakers opted to pass a measure from Biggs to demand &#8220;all communications between President Biden or the Biden officials and the prosecuting agency related to the Epstein prosecutors also be released.&#8221;
The subpoenas, which must be signed off by Oversight Chairman James Comer (R-KY), &#8220;will be issued in the future,&#8221; a panel spokesperson told reporters.
Epstein, a wealthy financier and convicted sex offender with connections to several high-profile people, was found dead at the age of 66 in his New York City jail cell in 2019 — after being arrested on sex trafficking charges involving young girls.
A growing number of lawmakers have been pushing GOP House leadership on the disclosure issue after the Trump administration&#8217;s DOJ claimed it had no evidence that Epstein had a client list, blackmailed powerful people, or was murdered.
In adherence to an earlier vote from a different subcommittee this week, Comer <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/house-subpoenas-epstein-associate-ghislaine-maxwell" target="_blank" rel="noopener">announced</a> on Wednesday that he subpoenaed Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell to participate in a deposition on August 11 at a federal correctional facility in Florida.
Maxwell is serving <a href="https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/ghislaine-maxwell-sentenced-20-years-prison-conspiring-jeffrey-epstein-sexually-abuse" target="_blank" rel="noopener">a 20-year prison sentence</a> after being found guilty of conspiring with Epstein to sexually abuse underage girls. Her attorney <a href="https://x.com/kaitlancollins/status/1948103871802315038" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told CNN</a> that a discussion with the DOJ would inform how Maxwell would proceed.
Attorney General Pam Bondi asked judges to unseal grand jury testimony from the cases against Epstein and Maxwell at the behest of President Donald Trump, who has argued that people are falling for a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/white-house-explains-trumps-epstein-hoax-claim" target="_blank" rel="noopener">&#8220;hoax&#8221;</a> spun by the Democrats.
One federal judge <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/hands-are-tied-federal-judge-denies-dojs-request-to-unseal-epstein-grand-jury-transcripts?topStoryPosition=undefined&amp;author=Zach+Jewell&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=0&amp;row=1&amp;rowHeadline=Top+Stories&amp;rowType=Top+Stories&amp;title=%E2%80%98Hands+Are+Tied%E2%80%99%3A+Federal+Judge+Denies+DOJ%E2%80%99s+Request+To+Unseal+Epstein+Grand+Jury+Transcripts">denied</a> the Trump administration&#8217;s request in Florida. on Wednesday. CBS News <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/jeffrey-epstein-grand-jury-florida-federal-judge/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> that judges who oversaw other cases in New York have yet to decide how to proceed.
A potential House vote on demanding the Trump administration release secret documents it has on Epstein, the focus of a bipartisan discharge petition that would force leadership’s hand, likely will not happen until after the August recess.
Democrats have accused GOP leadership of balking on Epstein transparency, while Republicans have raised questions about why their colleagues across the aisle did not seem interested in the issue when they had power.
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) said this week that Congress needs to give the Trump administration “space,” but would consider action if it became necessary. He also said House Republicans want “maximum transparency.”

Jeffrey Epstein poster

House Panel Votes To Subpoena Epstein Files, Clintons, Ex-Law Enforcement Leaders

Ghislaine Maxwell

House Oversight Committee

Jeffrey Epstein

U.S.

U.S. House of Representatives

Democrat James Osyf is listed as the owner of a $1.7 million D.C. townhome, raising questions about how connected he is with the Virginia district he wants to represent in Congress.
Osyf, 40, is vying with two other Democratic candidates to unseat GOP Rep. Jen Kiggans in Virginia’s second district. Osyf, a Navy veteran and executive at Lockheed Martin, is the most prominent of the three Democratic contenders.
Osyf is listed as the owner of a $1.7 million townhome in Washington, D.C., while the district he seeks to represent is located roughly 200 miles away in southern Virginia. In addition to the townhome, his campaign is registered at an address in D.C., as well. Records indicate that he does not own a residence in Virginia’s second district, according to the <a href="https://nypost.com/2025/07/23/us-news/dem-in-ultra-competitive-house-race-bases-campaign-in-dc-three-hours-outside-district/">New York Post</a>.
“It certainly doesn’t look good,” Todd Belt, director of the Political Management program at George Washington University, told the Post, adding that the poor optics associated with living outside the district are “why candidates often fake a residence in a district in order to run there.”
Virginia state law requires that candidates for office be residents of the state for at least one year prior to the election.
While Osyf’s campaign headquarters are currently located in Washington, he could amend his campaign filings later to change his headquarters to an address in the district.
Osyf wants to flip Virginia’s second district from Kiggans, who has held the seat since 2023 after she beat former Democratic Rep. Elaine Luria. Kiggans <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Virginia%27s_2nd_Congressional_District">flipped</a> the seat by a vote of roughly 52% to 48%.
Kiggans held the seat in 2024 by a similar margin, overcoming a challenge from Democrat Missy Cotter Smasal by roughly 51% to 47%. Kiggans&#8217; seat is listed as “lean Republican” by <a href="https://www.cookpolitical.com/ratings/house-race-ratings">The Cook Political Report</a> for 2026.

James Osyf

Dem Candidate Owns Ritzy $1.7M Home Hours Outside His District

Virginia

<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/ghislaine-maxwell" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ghislaine Maxwell</a>, a longtime companion to deceased sex offender <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/jeffrey-epstein" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jeffrey Epstein</a>, has been subpoenaed to address Congress next month.
House Oversight Chairman James Comer (R-KY) announced the move one day after members of his panel <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/house-panel-votes-to-subpoena-ghislaine-maxwell" target="_blank" rel="noopener">voted</a> to authorize him to issue a subpoena. A <a href="https://oversight.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/2025.07.23-Subpoena-Cover-Letter-to-Maxwell-FINAL.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">cover letter</a> to Maxwell says Comer seeks a deposition at the Federal Correctional Institution in Tallahassee, Florida, on August 11. The chairman&#8217;s office said the Department of Justice (DOJ) is &#8220;cooperating&#8221; and would &#8220;help facilitate&#8221; the interview.
&#8220;The facts and circumstances surrounding both your and Mr. Epstein&#8217;s cases have received immense public interest and scrutiny,&#8221; Comer wrote on Wednesday.
&#8220;At the outset of the 119th Congress, on February 11, 2025, the Committee and the Task Force on the Declassification of Federal Secrets sent a letter to the U.S. Department of Justice requesting a briefing regarding documents in the Department&#8217;s possession regarding &#8216;the investigation into and prosecution of Jeffrey Epstein,'&#8221; Comer added. &#8220;On May 8, the Task Force sent another letter to the Department requesting the public release of &#8216;the entirety of the Epstein files&#8217; and a briefing regarding the release of these files.&#8221;
Comer&#8217;s team noted in a press release that The Daily Mail had reported on July 13 that Maxwell was open to speaking with Congress about Epstein&#8217;s criminal activities. The news outlet cited <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14901591/Jeffrey-Epstein-Ghislaine-Maxwell-trump-congress.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">unnamed sources</a> close to Maxwell.
Maxwell is serving <a href="https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/ghislaine-maxwell-sentenced-20-years-prison-conspiring-jeffrey-epstein-sexually-abuse" target="_blank" rel="noopener">a 20-year prison sentence</a> after being found guilty of conspiring with Epstein to sexually abuse underage girls.
Her attorney, David Oscar Markus, <a href="https://x.com/kaitlancollins/status/1948103871802315038" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told CNN</a> in response to the subpoena, &#8220;Ms. Maxwell is taking this one step at a time. She looks forward to her meeting with the Department of Justice, and that discussion will help inform how she proceeds.&#8221; He also <a href="https://x.com/kaitlancollins/status/1948104188975796703" target="_blank" rel="noopener">claimed</a> that concerns about Maxwell&#8217;s credibility are &#8220;unfounded&#8221; while stressing that his client would speak &#8220;truthfully&#8221; and not plead the Fifth if a deposition with Congress were to occur.
The vote to subpoena Maxwell happened shortly after the DOJ <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/justice-dept-anticipates-ghislaine-maxwell-meeting-in-coming-days-amid-epstein-fallout" target="_blank" rel="noopener">revealed</a> that it anticipated a meeting with Maxwell in the &#8220;coming days.&#8221; That followed Attorney General Pam Bondi filing a formal <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/doj-requests-judge-unseal-grand-jury-testimony-in-epstein-maxwell-cases-at-trumps-behest" target="_blank" rel="noopener">request</a> last week for judges to unseal grand jury testimony from the cases against Epstein and Maxwell at the behest of President Donald Trump, who has argued that people are falling for a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/white-house-explains-trumps-epstein-hoax-claim" target="_blank" rel="noopener">&#8220;hoax&#8221;</a> perpetuated by Democrats.
On Wednesday, just before Comer&#8217;s announcement, a federal judge <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/hands-are-tied-federal-judge-denies-dojs-request-to-unseal-epstein-grand-jury-transcripts?topStoryPosition=undefined&amp;author=Zach+Jewell&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=0&amp;row=1&amp;rowHeadline=Top+Stories&amp;rowType=Top+Stories&amp;title=%E2%80%98Hands+Are+Tied%E2%80%99%3A+Federal+Judge+Denies+DOJ%E2%80%99s+Request+To+Unseal+Epstein+Grand+Jury+Transcripts">denied</a> the Trump administration&#8217;s request to unseal grand jury materials from investigations conducted in the 2000s regarding Epstein. CBS News <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/jeffrey-epstein-grand-jury-florida-federal-judge/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> that judges who oversaw other cases in New York were still undecided as of the time of publication.
A growing number of lawmakers have been pushing for the disclosure of more information on Epstein, a wealthy financier and convicted sex offender who was found dead at the age of 66 in his New York City jail cell in 2019 after being arrested on sex trafficking charges involving young girls. Democrats have accused GOP leadership of balking on pressing the Trump administration harder for disclosure, while Republicans have raised questions about why their colleagues across the aisle did not seem interested in the issue when they had power.
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) <a href="https://x.com/mkraju/status/1947371871776731167" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> reporters this week that Congress needs to give the Trump administration &#8220;space,&#8221; but would consider action if it became necessary. He also <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6JVI9uLRFwo">said</a> House Republicans want &#8220;maximum transparency.&#8221;
A potential vote on demanding the Trump administration release secret documents it has on Epstein, the focus of a <a href="https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-resolution/581/cosponsors" target="_blank" rel="noopener">discharge petition</a> from Reps. Thomas Massie (R-KY) and Ro Khanna (D-CA) that would force leadership&#8217;s hand, likely will not happen until after the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/not-a-vacation-house-leaders-unveil-rival-game-plans-for-most-important-work-month" target="_blank" rel="noopener">August recess</a>. More immediately, as of publication of this article, it appeared that a House Oversight subcommittee was on its way to <a href="https://x.com/mkraju/status/1948103513436778927" target="_blank" rel="noopener">passing</a> a motion to subpoena Epstein files.
&#8220;While the Justice Department undertakes efforts to uncover and publicly disclose additional information related to your and Mr. Epstein&#8217;s cases, it is imperative that Congress conduct oversight of the federal government&#8217;s enforcement of sex trafficking laws generally and specifically its handling of the investigation and prosecution of you and Mr. Epstein,&#8221; Comer wrote.
He continued, &#8220;In particular, the Committee seeks your testimony to inform the consideration of potential legislative solutions to improve federal efforts to combat sex trafficking and reform the use of non-prosecution agreements and/or plea agreements in sex-crime investigations.&#8221;

Epstein and Maxwell

House Subpoenas Epstein Associate Ghislaine Maxwell

James Comer

subpoena

As House lawmakers prepare to leave Washington, D.C., and begin their August recess this week, party leaders laid out plans for what their caucus members will be doing over the next several weeks.
In a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5nKJI4m8xg" target="_blank" rel="noopener">press conference</a> on Tuesday, House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) dismissed the notion that Republicans would be taking it easy for the rest of the summer. Rather, he contended, they will be meeting voters and promoting the &#8220;One, Big, Beautiful Bill&#8221; that passed through Congress and was signed by President Donald Trump earlier this month.
&#8220;This is the last leadership press conference before we enter the August district work period,&#8221; he declared. &#8220;Around here, people call it the August recess. It is not that. I know that lots of people in the press corps are going to be able to enjoy some downtime with friends and families, and we commend you for that. But House Republicans aren&#8217;t going to get to participate in all that stuff because this month of August is not a vacation.&#8221;
Johnson noted this period is &#8220;arguably the most important work month on our calendar&#8221; because members go home, connect with constituents in person, host roundtables with local businesses and organizations, and &#8220;meet with community stakeholders and local officials.&#8221;
&#8220;Really, really important components of the job,&#8221; Johnson said. &#8220;And frankly, they need to cut through the false and misleading claims about the &#8216;One Big Beautiful Bill&#8217; from the media and the Democrats. As I mentioned, the more people know, the more they greatly favor the bill that we passed, and House Republicans are going to spend the month highlighting how it will positively impact our districts and our communities.&#8221;
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) used a Democrat leadership <a href="https://www.youtube.com/live/c5UkjsJDwwk?t=252s">press conference</a> on Wednesday to argue the &#8220;One Big Beautiful Bill&#8221; and Trump are &#8220;deeply&#8221; unpopular. He also said that all Republicans can do during this August recess is brag about their &#8220;toxic and extreme&#8221; bill that he claimed would cause millions of Americans to lose their healthcare and bestow large tax breaks onto billionaires.
&#8220;During the August district work period, House Democrats will hold events all across the country talking about our efforts to build an affordable economy that lowers the high cost of living in the United States of America, to protect the healthcare of the American people, and to combat the cultural corruption that exists in this town that undermines the ability to have a government of the people, by the people, and for the people,&#8221; Jeffries said.
&#8220;We&#8217;re looking forward to holding town hall meetings across the country, at the same time that Republicans will continue to run away from town hall meetings,&#8221; he added. &#8220;But we will fill the void that they are leaving and engage aggressively with the American people, all in service of building a country where everyone can experience the American dream.&#8221;
It remains unclear whether the Senate will have an August recess.
Trump <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-calls-on-senate-to-cancel-long-weekends-and-get-his-people-confirmed" target="_blank" rel="noopener">called on</a> Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) to cancel &#8220;long weekends&#8221; and the upper chamber&#8217;s August recess to confirm more of his nominees.
&#8220;We’re thinking about it,&#8221; Thune said on Monday, according to <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5412240-thune-august-recess-trump/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Hill</a>.
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/thune-warns-schumer-may-cave-to-far-left-push-for-govt-shutdown-in-coming-weeks" target="_blank" rel="noopener">RELATED: Thune Warns Schumer May Cave To Far Left, Push For Govt Shutdown In Coming Weeks</a>

Speaker Johnson And Leader Jeffries

‘Not A Vacation’: House Leaders Unveil Rival Game Plans For ‘Most Important Work Month’

Congress

Hakeem Jeffries

Mike Johnson

Politics

House Speaker Mike Johnson made a triumphant return to his former organization, the Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF), and praised the &#8220;One Big, Beautiful Bill&#8221; as a significant victory for American families and the pro-life movement.
The Louisiana Republican addressed the group&#8217;s 2025 summit in Florida with a pre-recorded speech last week after the House sent the legislation to President Donald Trump ahead of his July 4 deadline.
After touting the bill&#8217;s provisions to invest in national defense and border security as well as its tax cuts, Johnson added that it was also &#8220;a monumental win for American families and includes many of the pro-family victories that we&#8217;ve all been fighting to achieve for many decades.&#8221;
Johnson went over a few specifics.
&#8220;We increased the child tax credit. It&#8217;s going to help everybody,&#8221; he said. &#8220;We expanded paid family leave, we created investment accounts for newborns, and we lowered the tax burden on all American families, so that the American dream of starting a family and owning a home are within reach.&#8221;
The speaker then explained how the legislation aligns with ADF&#8217;s pro-life mission.
&#8220;We also did something that advocates in this audience have worked towards for as long as I&#8217;ve been in the arena,&#8221; Johnson said. &#8220;We finally passed legislation to make sure that the forced funding of abortion is no longer a thing in America. No longer will our tax dollars fund evil organizations explicitly focused on killing unborn babies. We defunded that.&#8221;
However, it remains to be seen if that victory remains fully intact. There is litigation in which a judge <a href="https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/5412759-judge-blocks-trump-administration-from-cutting-planned-parenthood-funding/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">temporarily paused</a> a ban on funds to Planned Parenthood that had been included in the bill.
Johnson credited ADF for helping to prepare him for the hardships of being speaker of the House.
&#8220;I do miss my days as an allied attorney and as a staff attorney at ADF,&#8221; he said. &#8220;It was a formative time in my life, prepared me in so many ways for the crazy job that I&#8217;m doing right now. And so my hat&#8217;s off to all of you for being involved, staying engaged, and being there to fellowship together &#8230; God bless the Alliance Defending Freedom and everybody involved. There&#8217;s never been a more important time for that work than there is right now.”
Kristen Waggoner, the president, CEO, and chief legal counsel of ADF, expressed her gratitude to Johnson in an exclusive statement to The Daily Wire.
&#8220;I appreciate the long-time relationship Speaker of the House Johnson has with ADF,&#8221; Waggoner said. &#8220;He was gracious to share at our annual Summit his perspectives on key issues for which Congress and the Trump administration are contending, and encouraged our allies and guests in attendance to do the same in their realms of influence, especially political leaders who are given platforms to legislate on behalf of the unborn and the family, our bedrocks of society.&#8221;
With a reference to the recent Supreme Court <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/supreme-court-says-states-can-cut-off-medicaid-funds-for-planned-parenthood" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ruling</a> that South Carolina is allowed to ban Medicaid funds from going to Planned Parenthood, she continued, &#8220;Speaker Johnson celebrated the meaningful advancements in pro-life legislation, and we&#8217;re grateful at ADF for our recent major victory at the Supreme Court in Medina v. Planned Parenthood South Atlantic.
&#8220;Combined, wins like Medina and pro-life provisions in the ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ encourage us that the tide is turning back towards life, yet it will take continued diligence to ensure pro-life laws are not only passed — but fully upheld and enforced.&#8221;

Speaker of the House Mike Johnson

Speaker Johnson Hails ‘Big, Beautiful’ Win For American Families

Abortion

Spending Bill

The Republican majority in the House has shrunk by one with the official resignation of Rep. Mark Green (R-TN) following the passage of the &#8220;One Big, Beautiful Bill&#8221; this month.
In the House chamber on Monday, Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) <a href="https://www.c-span.org/event/us-house-of-representatives/us-house-of-representatives/434841" target="_blank" rel="noopener">announced</a> Green&#8217;s exit and said it left the lower chamber with 431 members. The <a href="https://pressgallery.house.gov/member-data/party-breakdown" target="_blank" rel="noopener">party breakdown</a> is now 219 Republicans and 212 Democrats. There are <a href="https://pressgallery.house.gov/member-data/party-breakdown" target="_blank" rel="noopener">three vacant seats</a> left by Democrats who recently died. Special elections are expected to pick their replacements in the coming months.
Green <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/house-gop-chairman-to-retire-after-big-beautiful-bill-vote" target="_blank" rel="noopener">announced</a> &#8220;with a heavy heart&#8221; last month that he planned to retire from Congress after one more vote on the &#8220;One Big, Beautiful Bill.&#8221; That happened on July 3, when the House <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/big-beautiful-and-on-the-way-to-trumps-desk-congress-passes-historic-spending-bill" target="_blank" rel="noopener">sent</a> the legislation to President Donald Trump via the budget reconciliation process just before his Independence Day deadline.
First elected to the House in 2018, Green worked his way to becoming chairman of the Homeland Security panel and helped oversee efforts to pass a major border security bill and impeach Biden DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas. The lawmaker, who was just re-elected in November by <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/elections/results/2024/11/05/tennessee-house-district-7/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">defeating</a> his Democrat challenger by more than 20 points, said he was leaving Congress after being offered a private sector job that he could not refuse.
&#8220;Though I planned to retire at the end of the previous Congress, I stayed to ensure that President Trump’s border security measures and priorities make it through Congress,&#8221; Green said in his <a href="https://x.com/RepMarkGreen/status/1932197022821388379" target="_blank" rel="noopener">statement</a>. &#8220;By overseeing the border security portion of the reconciliation package, I have done that. After that, I will retire.&#8221;
A special election is now expected to pick a replacement for Green to serve out the remainder of his two-year term as representative for the 7th Congressional District of Tennessee. Some people in the Republican and Democrat camps have <a href="https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/politics/2025/07/07/tennessee-mark-green-farewell-possible-replacements/84490848007/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">announced</a> campaigns for the seat. Green <a href="https://fox17.com/news/local/mark-green-endorses-matt-van-epps-in-tennessee-race" target="_blank" rel="noopener">endorsed</a> Matt Van Epps, an Army veteran and former Tennessee Department of General Services commissioner, to be his successor.
The Hill <a href="https://x.com/emilybrooksnews/status/1947409897223819365" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> that the House GOP Steering Committee is expected to select a new chair of the homeland security panel on Monday evening. The candidates for the top role include Reps. Clay Higgins (R-LA), Andrew Garbarino (R-NY), Carlos Gimenez (R-FL), and Michael Guest (R-MS).

Mark Green

GOP’s House Majority Shrinks After ‘Big, Beautiful’ Victory

Tennessee

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) on Monday released a supercut of Democrats defending Joe Biden&#8217;s mental acuity as Republicans investigate an alleged &#8220;cover-up&#8221; of the former president&#8217;s decline while in office.
The <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=euaBtI7F3xQ" target="_blank" rel="noopener">video</a>, which is more than 14 minutes long, comes on the one-year anniversary of Biden <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-drops-out-of-presidential-race" target="_blank" rel="noopener">abandoning</a> his 2024 re-election bid following a faltering presidential debate against now-President Donald Trump that led to immense pressure from allies for the incumbent to drop out of the race. It features clips of congressional Democrats, officials in the Biden administration, and others in various media interviews, press conferences, and public events. Former Vice President Kamala Harris, who lost to Trump in the November election and is reportedly considering a run for California governor, is among them.
&#8220;One year ago today, President Biden&#8217;s disastrous debate performance made history by ending his re-election campaign and exposing the largest political cover-up in U.S. history,&#8221; Johnson said in a statement. &#8220;As House Republicans investigate the scandal to bring accountability, the American people should never forget how far Democrats and the media went to hide the truth about the mental decline of the man holding the most powerful position on earth. Our video compilation shows just a small sample of the countless receipts.&#8221;
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Biden, now 82, and his health have become a focus of increased scrutiny over the past several months. A <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/jake-tapper-flails-when-confronted-with-his-role-in-biden-cover-up" target="_blank" rel="noopener">book</a> by journalists Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson on Biden&#8217;s &#8220;deterioration&#8221; and efforts to &#8220;hide&#8221; it, his recent <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/joe-biden-diagnosed-with-aggressive-form-of-prostate-cancer" target="_blank" rel="noopener">&#8220;aggressive&#8221;</a> prostate cancer diagnosis, and the release of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/audio-of-bidens-special-counsel-interview-is-out-and-its-painful-to-listen-to" target="_blank" rel="noopener">audio</a> from an interview with special counsel Robert Hur in which the former president struggled to recall simple facts has further stoked the flames of speculation.
House Republicans are calling in former Biden administration staffers to interview for an inquiry looking for any efforts to conceal issues with the former president&#8217;s mental state and whether he authorized the use of autopen signatures for pardons and other major executive actions. Some <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/top-jill-biden-aide-joins-white-house-doc-takes-the-fifth-in-biden-health-cover-up-probe" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pleaded</a> the Fifth.
Senate Republicans are also <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/democrats-duck-biden-mental-fitness-hearing" target="_blank" rel="noopener">looking into</a> Biden&#8217;s mental fitness. And Trump has <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-orders-investigation-into-biden-autopen-scandal" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ordered</a> a probe into whether aides improperly used an autopen for executive actions in an effort to conceal Biden&#8217;s health issues, suggesting there could be &#8220;implications&#8221; for the legality and validity of the presidential acts in question.
Democrats have largely shrugged off the investigations into Biden. Rep. Robert Garcia (D-CA), the ranking member of the House Oversight Committee, took the opportunity to swipe at GOP colleagues over the &#8220;One Big, Beautiful Bill&#8221; that recently passed through Congress.
&#8220;The only person&#8217;s health that Republicans care about is Joe Biden&#8217;s – even as 17 million Americans lose access to health care thanks to their budget betrayal,&#8221; Garcia <a href="https://x.com/RepRobertGarcia/status/1942986945216549149" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> on X.
Biden pushed back on the notion that he did not dictate his executive actions.
&#8220;Let me be clear: I made the decisions during my presidency. I made the decisions about the pardons, executive orders, legislation, and proclamations. Any suggestion that I didn&#8217;t is ridiculous and false,&#8221; Biden said in a <a href="https://x.com/brittanys/status/1930450375699583244" target="_blank" rel="noopener">statement</a>. &#8220;This is nothing more than a distraction by Donald Trump and Congressional Republicans.&#8221;
However, Biden later conceded to <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/13/us/politics/biden-pardon-autopen-trump.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&amp;referringSource=articleShare" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The New York Times</a> that he did not personally sign off on each of a large number of pardons before he left office.

Former President Joe Biden

A Year After Biden Quit Race, Mike Johnson Drops 14-Minute Video Exposing Dem ‘Cover-Up’ Of His Decline

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Joe Biden

The GOP-led House sent a $9 billion rescissions package to President Donald Trump&#8217;s desk just after midnight on Friday, a victory for the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) drive to defund programs that many Republicans deem wasteful and ideologically driven.
Lawmakers in the lower chamber voted <a href="https://clerk.house.gov/Votes/2025203" target="_blank" rel="noopener">216-213</a>, largely along party lines, in favor of the rescissions measure, which claws back funds allocated to foreign aid projects and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), a funding source for NPR and PBS.
&#8220;President Trump and House Republicans promised fiscal responsibility and government efficiency. Today, we’re once again delivering on that promise,&#8221; House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) said. &#8220;This package eliminates $9 billion in unnecessary and wasteful spending at the State Department, USAID, and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.&#8221;
He added, &#8220;The American people will no longer be forced to fund politically biased media and more than $8 billion in outrageous expenses overseas. While Republicans continue to deliver real accountability, restore fiscal discipline, and protect taxpayer dollars, Democrats continue to defend waste, fraud, and abuse. This isn’t the end, it’s the beginning. We look forward to passing additional rescissions bills throughout the 119th Congress.&#8221;
Previously, the House passed a $9.4 billion rescissions package in line with the White House&#8217;s request in early June. However, the GOP-led Senate <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/senate-republicans-drop-aids-relief-cuts-from-rescissions-package" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pulled</a> $400 million in cuts to the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) program as some members had voiced dismay with that part of the proposal.
Under the Impoundment Control Act, any rescissions measure requires only a simple majority in the House and Senate, meaning the filibuster threshold could be ignored. But it also gave Congress just 45 days to deliver legislation in response to a president&#8217;s request. The deadline, in this case, was the end of the day on Friday.
A continuation of the spending reductions is possible if they make it into fiscal 2026 legislation that is being put together now. Sources on Capitol Hill and the White House previously said they expected more requests from the Trump administration to implement so-called DOGE cuts as part of a wider effort to reduce the deficit, which has ballooned past a trillion dollars in recent years, so long as the first bill passed.
Critics of the rescissions package raised <a href="https://x.com/bresreports/status/1945297767649435793" target="_blank" rel="noopener">concerns</a> about how defunding public broadcasting could <a href="https://x.com/lisamurkowski/status/1945637668479479894" target="_blank" rel="noopener">diminish</a> helpful services to Americans, lamented a lack of clarity on the Trump administration&#8217;s plan to implement the cuts, and <a href="https://x.com/SenatorDurbin/status/1945919451678875833" target="_blank" rel="noopener">decried</a> the prospect of cutting back on food and medicine for people in poor countries.
&#8220;Instead of protecting the health, safety and well-being of the American people, House Republicans have once again rubber stamped Donald Trump’s extreme, reckless rescissions legislation,&#8221; Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) and other Democrat leaders in the House said in a joint statement.
Upon announcing its request, the White House&#8217;s budget office <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/dei-insect-powder-and-trans-resilience-trump-unveils-woke-spending-cuts-request" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> that it wanted to claw back funds steeped in &#8220;waste, fraud, and abuse&#8221; from the CPB, which Trump singled out in an <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/05/ending-taxpayer-subsidization-of-biased-media/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">executive order</a> seeking to defund NPR and PBS amid claims they were biased, as well as money for foreign aid programs.
Johnson&#8217;s office said the final product &#8220;rescinds $9 billion of wasteful spending uncovered by DOGE,&#8221; including: $1.1 billion for the CPB, $135 million in contributions to the corrupt and dangerous World Health Organization, $18 million to improve gender diversity in Mexican street lighting, $4.4 million for a Melanesian Youth Climate Corps, $3.9 million for LGBTQI+ advocacy programs in the Western Balkans, $2.5 million to teach children how to make environmentally friendly “reproductive health” decisions, $300,000 to fund a Pride parade in Lesotho, $500,000 for electric buses in Rwanda, $500,000 for a gender equality and empowerment hub, and $8,000 for promoting vegan food in Zambia.
Trump had <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-warns-republican-senators-defund-npr-and-pbs-or-lose-my-endorsement" target="_blank" rel="noopener">warned</a> GOP lawmakers that there would be political consequences for opposing the rescissions effort, particularly when it came to PBS and NPR. Among the Senate Republicans who <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/taking-back-control-senate-votes-to-claw-back-9b-from-foreign-aid-public-broadcasting" target="_blank" rel="noopener">voted</a> against the measure with the Democrats and independents were Lisa Murkowski of Alaska and Susan Collins of Maine. The GOP lawmakers in the House who <a href="https://x.com/CraigCaplan/status/1946059570570281055" target="_blank" rel="noopener">voted</a> against it, via a rule, were Reps. Mike Turner (R-OH) and Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA).
In an early Friday morning post on Truth Social, Trump <a href="https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/114872393229075156" target="_blank" rel="noopener">exclaimed</a> in all caps, &#8220;HOUSE APPROVES NINE BILLION DOLLAR CUTS PACKAGE, INCLUDING ATROCIOUS NPR AND PUBLIC BROADCASTING, WHERE BILLIONS OF DOLLARS A YEAR WERE WASTED. REPUBLICANS HAVE TRIED DOING THIS FOR 40 YEARS, AND FAILED….BUT NO MORE. THIS IS BIG!!!&#8221;

Speaker Johnson Holds Weekly Press Conference On Capitol Hill

The House Delivers: Trump’s $9B Cut To Global Aid And Public Broadcasting Gets Final Approval

The GOP-led House passed a trio of bills on Thursday that are poised to have a tremendous impact on the cryptocurrency space in the United States.
Members voted <a href="https://clerk.house.gov/Votes/2025200" target="_blank" rel="noopener">308-122</a> in favor of the <a href="https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/senate-bill/1582/text" target="_blank" rel="noopener">GENIUS Act</a>, a stablecoin regulation bill that already passed through the Senate. The legislation now heads to the White House, where President Donald Trump is expected to sign it. House lawmakers also approved the <a href="https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/3633/text" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Digital Asset Market Clarity Act of 2025</a>, legislation from Financial Services Chairman French Hill (R-AR) that aims to provide a &#8220;system of regulation&#8221; for digital commodity sales by the Securities and Exchange Commission and Commodity Futures Trading Commission, by a <a href="https://clerk.house.gov/Votes/2025199" target="_blank" rel="noopener">294-134</a> vote.
&#8220;The Web 3 race is here, implementing clear regulations with CLARITY and GENIUS will protect consumers and ensure U.S. leadership in digital assets,&#8221; Rep. Bryan Steil (R-WI), chairman of the Crypto Subcommittee, <a href="https://x.com/RepBryanSteil/status/1945903351083716903" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> on X.
In addition, the <a href="https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/5403/text" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Anti-CBDC Surveillance State Act</a>, a measure that seeks to prohibit the Federal reserve banks from issuing their own digital currency or using one to implement monetary policy, prevailed in a <a href="https://clerk.house.gov/Votes/2025201" target="_blank" rel="noopener">219-210</a> vote. That bill is set to be included in the National Defense Authorization Act (<a href="https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/senate-bill/2296/text" target="_blank" rel="noopener">NDAA</a>) as part of a <a href="https://x.com/RepAndyHarrisMD/status/1945681755559924107" target="_blank" rel="noopener">deal</a> with conservatives who held out during a procedural rule vote that <a href="https://x.com/GOPMajorityWhip/status/1945677323040354398" target="_blank" rel="noopener">lasted</a> a record-breaking nine hours and 45 minutes.
&#8220;Attaching our Anti-CBDC Surveillance State Act to the NDAA will ensure unelected bureaucrats are NEVER allowed to trade Americans’ financial privacy for a CCP-style surveillance tool,&#8221; House Majority Whip Tom Emmer (R-MN) <a href="https://x.com/GOPMajorityWhip/status/1945677323040354398" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> in a post on X. &#8220;[Trump] has made it clear: our legislation is a key piece of our America First agenda, and we will deliver.&#8221;
Many, but not all, Democrats voted against the bills. In fact, nearly half of them voted for the Genius Act. Those who opposed the proposals warned they would benefit a Trump family crypto venture and possibly cause a financial calamity.
The &#8220;GOP crypto bills don’t just fail to protect consumers, they greenlight Trump’s billion-dollar crypto grift and invite the next financial crisis,&#8221; read a <a href="https://x.com/RepMaxineWaters/status/1945151846433140920" target="_blank" rel="noopener">post</a> on X from Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA), the ranking member of the Financial Services Committee.
A handful of House Republicans voted against the GENIUS Act, too, amid concerns about it allowing a <a href="https://x.com/RepMTG/status/1945880979949891750" target="_blank" rel="noopener">&#8220;back door&#8221;</a> to a central bank digital currency one day that could infringe upon financial privacy — if the Senate ends up not approving the Anti-CBDC Surveillance State Act.
For now, Trump has an <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/strengthening-american-leadership-in-digital-financial-technology/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">executive order</a> that calls for policies that prevent a CBDC in the United States.
A bipartisan group of senators united in a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/senate-vote-pushes-u-s-toward-becoming-the-global-leader-in-crypto?author=Daniel+Chaitin&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=undefined&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Senate+Vote+Pushes+U.S.+Toward+Becoming+%E2%80%98The+Global+Leader+In+Crypto%E2%80%99" target="_blank" rel="noopener">68-30 vote</a> in June to pass the GENIUS Act. It seeks to create a framework for <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/white-house-gop-leaders-pledge-major-crypto-bills-in-first-100-days" target="_blank" rel="noopener">stablecoins</a>, which are significant in digital asset exchanges and pegged to stable assets such as the U.S. dollar.
“The GENIUS Act will cement U.S. dollar dominance, protect customers, drive demand for U.S. Treasuries, &amp; ensure that digital asset innovation happens in the U.S., not overseas,” Sen. Bill Hagerty (R-TN), the bill&#8217;s sponsor, <a href="https://x.com/SenatorHagerty/status/1935074302396649918" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> in a post on X. &#8220;With this bill, we are one step closer to becoming the global leader in crypto.&#8221;
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt announced that a signing ceremony for the GENIUS Act was being planned for Friday afternoon.
“This piece of legislation is going to make America the crypto capital of the world, and that&#8217;s what the president promised,&#8221; Leavitt <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxH7sgAzPvM" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>.

Bitcoin

House Sends GENIUS Act To Trump, Passes Two Other Crypto Bills

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The GOP-led Senate narrowly passed a $9 billion rescissions package early on Thursday morning that seeks to eliminate <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/dei-insect-powder-and-trans-resilience-trump-unveils-woke-spending-cuts-request" target="_blank" rel="noopener">&#8220;waste, fraud, and abuse&#8221;</a> identified by the Trump administration and its Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) initiative.
Senators voted <a href="https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_votes/vote1191/vote_119_1_00411.htm" target="_blank" rel="noopener">51-48</a> in favor of the measure, which aims to claw back funds allocated to foreign aid projects and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, a funding source for NPR and PBS programs that many Republicans deem wasteful and ideologically driven. Now the rescissions package heads back to the House, which has only until Friday to pass it.
&#8220;This isn&#8217;t just about saving money. It&#8217;s about taking back control,&#8221; Sen. Eric Schmitt (R-MO), who spearheaded the effort to pass the package, <a href="https://x.com/Eric_Schmitt/status/1945556733230772231" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> on X. &#8220;It&#8217;s time to remind the NGOs, the foreign lobbyists and their friends in the media that America is not a tax farm for global leftism. We&#8217;re a sovereign nation — and it&#8217;s time to start acting like one again.&#8221;
Sens. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) and Susan Collins (R-ME) broke ranks and voted against the package along with Democrats and independents. They raised <a href="https://x.com/bresreports/status/1945297767649435793" target="_blank" rel="noopener">concerns</a> about how defunding public broadcasting could <a href="https://x.com/lisamurkowski/status/1945637668479479894" target="_blank" rel="noopener">diminish</a> helpful services to Americans and lamented the lack of clarity on the Trump administration&#8217;s plan to implement the cuts.
&#8220;The rescissions package has a big problem – nobody really knows what program reductions are in it,&#8221; Collins said in a <a href="https://x.com/AndrewDesiderio/status/1945292034920607994" target="_blank" rel="noopener">statement</a> on Tuesday evening. She added later, &#8220;To carry out our Constitutional responsibility, we should know exactly what programs are affected and the consequences of rescissions.&#8221;
Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY), who had <a href="https://x.com/bresreports/status/1945297767649435793" target="_blank" rel="noopener">joined</a> Murkowski and Collins in voting against advancing the rescissions package on Tuesday, ultimately supported it. Passage came after the Senate worked through a lengthy &#8220;vote-a-rama&#8221; that included a flurry of amendments, mostly from Democrats.
The sole lawmaker to miss the final vote series was Sen. Tina Smith (D-MN). Her office <a href="https://x.com/SenTinaSmith/status/1945597468357329093" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> the Democrat would be staying overnight at George Washington University Hospital after she began to feel unwell at the Capitol.
Next, the rescissions package heads back to the House, which had already <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/house-passes-doge-cuts-targeting-foreign-aid-npr-and-pbs" target="_blank" rel="noopener">passed</a> a $9.4 billion measure in mid-June. The lower chamber must vote again on the package after the Senate Republicans opted to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/senate-republicans-drop-aids-relief-cuts-from-rescissions-package" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pull</a> $400 million in cuts to the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) program.
The White House <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5402273-white-house-accepts-pepfar-exemption/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reportedly</a> gave its blessing to remove the part of the package that defunded PEPFAR, as some members had voiced dismay with that part of the proposal.
Under the Impoundment Control Act, Congress was given 45 days to act on the Trump administration&#8217;s rescissions request in early June, and it requires only a simple majority in the House and Senate, meaning the filibuster threshold can be ignored.
Both chambers of Congress must pass a single version of the package by Friday, the deadline.
The Office of Management and Budget <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/dei-insect-powder-and-trans-resilience-trump-unveils-woke-spending-cuts-request" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> that its rescissions wishlist included getting rid of $1.1 billion for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which Trump singled out in a <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/05/ending-taxpayer-subsidization-of-biased-media/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">executive order</a> seeking to defund NPR and PBS amid claims they were biased, as well as money for various foreign aid programs such as “net zero cities” in Mexico, Iraqi “Sesame Street,” and global LGBTQ+ initiatives.
While sources on Capitol Hill and the White House have said they expect more requests to implement so-called DOGE cuts to follow, that is assuming the first package manages to pass through Congress.
Trump has <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-warns-republican-senators-defund-npr-and-pbs-or-lose-my-endorsement" target="_blank" rel="noopener">warned</a> GOP lawmakers that there will be political consequences for opposing the effort.
“It is very important that all Republicans adhere to my Recissions [sic] Bill and, in particular, DEFUND THE CORPORATION FOR PUBLIC BROADCASTING (PBS and NPR), which is worse than CNN &amp; MSDNC put together,” Trump said in a post on Truth Social last week. “Any Republican that votes to allow this monstrosity to continue broadcasting will not have my support or Endorsement. Thank you for your attention to this matter!”

WASHINGTON, DC – JULY 17: Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-

‘Taking Back Control’: Senate Votes To Claw Back $9B From Foreign Aid, Public Broadcasting

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An effort to mandate background checks for congressional staffers is facing bipartisan pushback, according to Congresswoman Kat Cammack.
The Florida Republican, who is serving her third term in the House, discussed her <a href="https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-resolution/500/text" target="_blank" rel="noopener">resolution</a> that aims to require background checks conducted by the U.S. Capitol Police with The Daily Wire&#8217;s Mary Margaret Olohan on Tuesday.
&#8220;I think the American people deserve to know who&#8217;s working on their behalf,&#8221; Cammack said. &#8220;It&#8217;s pretty simple, but you would not believe the resistance that we&#8217;re getting.&#8221;
Cammack, who introduced the measure last month, said the opposition is coming from both Republicans and Democrats.
&#8220;I think that &#8230; speaks to all the more reason why we need to have these background checks in place. Why would you not want to know who is working in your office?&#8221; the congresswoman added.
The resolution stipulates that background checks must be conducted within 30 days of employment or a new Congress, with the results disclosed only to office heads.
Additionally, the measure requires employees to publicly report any foreign government payments or contracts from the past three years and their foreign citizenship status within 30 days of starting, effective from the current 119th Congress.
Cammack asserted that it is &#8220;known&#8221; that Chinese spies and people with links to the Muslim Brotherhood, which Republican senators are <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/cruz-introduces-bill-to-name-muslim-brotherhood-a-terrorist-group" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pushing</a> to designate as a terrorist organization, have infiltrated the offices of lawmakers.
&#8220;It is absolutely remarkable the amount of foreign interference and influence that is in the halls of Congress today,&#8221; said the congresswoman.
As it stands, House staffers are only required to have background checks when they go through the process of obtaining a security clearance, Cammack said when she first <a href="https://x.com/RepKatCammack/status/1933258233382137965" target="_blank" rel="noopener">announced</a> the resolution in June.
In her conversation with The Daily Wire, Cammack emphasized that she is trying to set an example for her colleagues, noting that she already conducts background checks on her staff.
&#8220;If someone wants to have someone in their team that had maybe a previous record, that&#8217;s entirely their prerogative,&#8221; Cammack said.
She added, &#8220;When it comes to foreign interference, when it comes to dual citizenship, when it comes to having ties to organizations that have terrorist funding, you should know, and the American people should know.&#8221;

Rep. Kat Cammack

Kat Cammack Is Fighting Both Parties To Mandate Background Checks For Congressional Staffers

Kat Cammack

A bipartisan pair of House lawmakers is teaming to try and lock in a vote on legislation that would force the Department of Justice (DOJ) to release files regarding Jeffrey Epstein, a wealthy financier and convicted sex offender who was found dead at the age of 66 in his New York City jail cell in 2019.
Reps. Thomas Massie (R-KY), who is once again <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/the-squad-endorses-massies-resolution-on-u-s-involvement-in-israel-iran-conflict" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pitting himself against</a> President Donald Trump, joined forces with Ro Khanna (D-CA) on Wednesday on a <a href="https://massie.house.gov/uploadedfiles/efta.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">discharge petition</a> that would force leadership to act on a disclosure bill should it garner signatures from a majority of the GOP-led House&#8217;s membership.
&#8220;We all deserve to know what’s in the Epstein files, who’s implicated, and how deep this corruption goes. Americans were promised justice and transparency. We’re introducing a discharge petition to force a vote in the US House of Representatives on releasing the COMPLETE files,&#8221; Massie <a href="https://x.com/RepThomasMassie/status/1945237281096229095" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> on X. He explained in a follow-up <a href="https://x.com/RepThomasMassie/status/1945242813282611492">post</a>: &#8220;A discharge petition is a procedural tool for bypassing leadership. In 7 days we can start collecting signatures. At 218 signatures, the House must vote on our bill requiring a full release of the Epstein files. If your Representative won’t sign the discharge petition, ask why.&#8221;
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We all deserve to know what’s in the Epstein files, who’s implicated, and how deep this corruption goes.
Americans were promised justice and transparency.
We’re introducing a discharge petition to force a vote in the US House of Representatives on releasing the COMPLETE files. <a href="https://t.co/Ja1xJ7Hiz1">pic.twitter.com/Ja1xJ7Hiz1</a>
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The announcement comes after the lower chamber repeatedly <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/house-republicans-block-democrat-push-to-release-epstein-files" target="_blank" rel="noopener">shot down</a> Khanna&#8217;s legislation this week, first in the Rules Committee in the form of an amendment to an unrelated crypto bill, and then a procedural vote on the House floor that Republicans <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/house-gop-rejects-claims-of-blocking-epstein-files-a-misunderstanding" target="_blank" rel="noopener">warned</a> would have given the Democrat minority the power to force votes on whatever agenda items they pleased.
Called the &#8220;Epstein Files Transparency Act,&#8221; Khanna&#8217;s <a href="https://massie.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=395739">legislation</a> demands that the attorney general make available records and investigative materials public within 30 days. Redactions are permitted for certain types of content, including child sexual abuse materials, documents that would jeopardize active federal investigations or prosecutions, and information designated to be secret by executive order.
Trump, who recently <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/not-maga-trump-vows-to-help-crush-massie-in-primary-after-iran-strike-criticism" target="_blank" rel="noopener">vowed</a> to help defeat Massie in his next primary after disagreements on the &#8220;One Big, Beautiful Bill&#8221; and strikes on Iran, has expressed support for Attorney General Pam Bondi and dismissed the uproar within the “Make America Great Again” movement following the DOJ claiming it had no evidence that Epstein had a client list, blackmailed powerful people, or was murdered.
A &#8220;new SCAM&#8221; from &#8220;Radical Left Democrats&#8221; is &#8220;what we will forever call the Jeffrey Epstein Hoax, and my PAST supporters have bought into this &#8216;bullshit,&#8217; hook, line, and sinker. They haven’t learned their lesson, and probably never will, even after being conned by the Lunatic Left for 8 long years,&#8221; Trump <a href="https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/114863203348237352" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> on Truth Social. &#8220;I have had more success in 6 months than perhaps any President in our Country’s history, and all these people want to talk about, with strong prodding by the Fake News and the success starved Dems, is the Jeffrey Epstein Hoax. Let these weaklings continue forward and do the Democrats work, don’t even think about talking of our incredible and unprecedented success, because I don’t want their support anymore! &#8221;
Still, even as has Trump decried the controversy, he <a href="https://x.com/theblaze/status/1945520557904081328" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> Bondi can release whatever she believes is &#8220;credible.&#8221;
Many people remain skeptical that the DOJ is being completely forthcoming, and other Republican lawmakers, <a href="https://x.com/RepMTG/status/1945502464037326863" target="_blank" rel="noopener">including</a> Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), quickly signed on to become co-sponsors of the discharge petition. Democrats, who have suddenly taken an interest in releasing Epstein files after <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/sen-blackburn-says-democrat-led-senate-committee-chair-blocked-epstein-flight-logs-subpoena" target="_blank" rel="noopener">fighting</a> GOP efforts in the past, also <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/house-gop-rejects-claims-of-blocking-epstein-files-a-misunderstanding" target="_blank" rel="noopener">signaled</a> their support for the measure and <a href="https://democrats-judiciary.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/judiciary-democrats-demand-chairman-jordan-hold-public-hearing-with-doj-and-fbi-officials-on-their-handling-of-the-epstein-files" target="_blank" rel="noopener">requested</a> a hearing on the matter.
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) <a href="https://x.com/bennyjohnson/status/1945181783567319432" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> in an interview with conservative political commentator Benny Johnson on Tuesday that he supports &#8220;transparency&#8221; with regard to the Epstein issue and called on Bondi to be more forthcoming to inform the American public what happened after she <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/shes-great-trump-backs-bondi-wants-top-officials-to-end-conflict-over-epstein" target="_blank" rel="noopener">hinted</a> earlier this year that major bombshells were about to be revealed that never materialized.
If the discharge petition were to prevail, Khanna&#8217;s bill would still face long odds, as <a href="https://x.com/JakeSherman/status/1945487474207461540" target="_blank" rel="noopener">explained</a> by Punchbowl News co-founder Jake Sherman.
&#8220;Massie may succeed in getting signatures. But I anticipate the leadership will make the case &#8211; as they usually do &#8211; that this is handing the floor to Democrats,&#8221; Sherman said on X. &#8220;And even if this gets the requisite 218 signatures, it’s subject to a motion to table then a vote in the house. Then the senate can ignore it. If the Senate somehow does pass it — probably won’t happen — Trump would almost certainly veto. And then will there be a veto proof majority? Almost definitely not.&#8221;

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