House won't vote on Epstein matter this week

[douglas9]

Source: Politico.com

Speaker Mike Johnson doesn’t have any plans to put a non-binding resolution on the floor this week before the August recess — or possibly ever — that would call for the administration to release Jeffrey Epstein-related documents.

Instead, GOP leaders have an understanding with White House officials that the House will wait to address the matter until after the monthlong break in order to give the administration time to release documents on its own following President Donald Trump’s move to release grand jury information on the case.

The current plan for dealing with the politically explosive matter on Capitol Hill, detailed Monday by people granted anonymity to share private party strategy, comes as the controversy continues to encircle the House GOP in chaos.

Johnson, his leadership team and Rules Committee Republicans drafted the non-binding Epstein resolution late last week. The idea was to give panel Republicans political cover amid Democratic attacks on the GOP’s handling of the materials related to Epstein, the disgraced financier and convicted sex offender who died in his jail cell by suicide in 2019.

Read more: https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/07/21/congress/house-gop-epstein-strategy-00465234

[gab13by13]

1. I get a dozen texts to donate to politicians every day.

Dems put up another political resolution to make Magats look bad.

Why not get together and demand that the Epstein autopsy be released, I bet there would even be some Congressional Magats to vote for it.

[groundloop]

2. Anything in those files pointing to tRump will have been scrubbed before they see the light of day.

Once the files are releases tRump will come out looking like a Boy Scout. I don't see why we're wasting our time on what will become another of his PR coups.

[sinkingfeeling]

3. Good doggie, Mikey.

[amcgrath]

4. Murdoch will take Trump down

And then the party - and individuals like Johnson who have worked so hard to protect him will be finished. Their cowardice is so great that they will tie themselves to a sinking ship rather than distance themselves. They will payback price for this no matter how much they claim otherwise. As we have seen in the past, after an appalling administration, everyone claims they were there because they were trying to prevent things from getting worse.
But all of them are on record as defending Trump. All have voted not to release files. Trump would have been impossible without them. They own this

[Karasu]

5. "...in order to give the administration time to release documents on its own..."

In order to give them time to scrub and/or redact the shit out of everything, you mean.

Who the fuck do they think they're fooling by stalling like this?

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

6. Johnson wants to protect his Lard and Savior Donald Trump

[republianmushroom]

7. Mikey hopping and praying it will go away.

We, as a nation, shall see how the law and order and family values party votes on this.