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Congress passed a transparency bill Tuesday night, finally unlocking the House approves Epstein documents on Jeffrey Epstein, the late, disgraced financier and convicted sex offender.
The Senate quickly advanced the legislation to the floor after the Epstein files release bill House of Representatives with near-unanimous support, 427-1.
On the Senate side, it advanced through “unanimous consent,” a procedure by which every single senator agreed to push it to the floor immediately rather than holding a formal, recorded vote.
The legislative win comes after months of Republican resistance, which the Trump administration had spent fighting the bipartisan push.
In a sign of progress, Trump himself flipped on the bill over the weekend. He said Monday that he’ll sign it when it lands on his desk, reversing a prior line he had taken in which he called the public outcry over the case a “Democrat hoax.”
“The American people have waited long enough. Jeffrey Epstein files Congress victims have waited long enough. Let the truth come out. Let transparency reign,” Senate Democrat leader Chuck Schumer said in a statement about the move.
US Senate Epstein bill passage in the House was greeted with applause from Democrats and from survivors of Epstein, who watched the vote from the gallery. The sole “ no ” vote was cast by Louisiana Republican Clay Higgins, who had expostulated to the measure, saying that it could release the names of substantiations and implicit suspects involved in the disquisition.
Trump played down the killing—which saw Saudi state agents murder and dismember Khashoggi in Istanbul—saying “Trump Epstein case update.” He also called the journalist “extremely controversial” and “not liked” by many people, brushing off the Saudi regime’s culpability in the murder.
Texas’s new political maps that were drawn to create five new Republican districts have hit a major legal hurdle. A federal judge ruled Tuesday that the state cannot use the 2025 maps. The judge wrote that the maps are “likely an instance of ‘racially gerrymandering,’ which is unlawful under US law.”
