The House voted Tuesday afternoon on legislation requiring the Justice Department to release its files related to the investigation of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. The measure passed following weeks of Democrats trying to weaponize the issue against President Donald Trump.
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The vote came after the House Oversight Committee released thousands of pages of emails and other materials connected to Epstein. On Sunday night, President Trump urged House Republicans to support the release.
“House Republicans should vote to release the Epstein files, because we have nothing to hide,” Trump wrote on Truth Social.
The House voted 427-1 to release the files on Tuesday afternoon. According to Fox News, the one nay vote came from Rep. Clay Higgins (R-La.).
The legislation, called the Epstein Files Transparency
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