EXCLUSIVE – House GOP leadership won’t push Republicans to vote against a bill to release all of the files related to Jeffrey Epstein when it inevitably comes to the floor after the government shutdown.
Leaders don’t normally whip against privileged motions, Majority Whip Tom Emmer (R-MN) told the Washington Examiner, and the pending Epstein discharge petition pushed by Reps. Thomas Massie (R-KY) and Ro Khanna (D-CA) will not be an exception.
“We don’t whip privileged motions, we never have,” Emmer said. “We whip legislation that the speaker has deemed something we’re trying to get across the House floor.”
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House leadership hasn’t scheduled a vote on Khanna and Massie’s Epstein Files Transparency Act, which calls for the full release of the criminal files with redactions to protect
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