Democrats to call on Vance to testify to House committee over Epstein files
Source: The Guardian
Thu 11 Jun 2026 15.53 EDT
Last modified on Thu 11 Jun 2026 16.28 EDT
Democrats on the House oversight committee, led by Representative Robert Garcia, plan to call on JD Vance to testify on the Trump administration’s handling of the Epstein files following a major report on Wednesday from the New York Times, which described how the Epstein files became the source of an internal crisis within Trump’s administration.
Garcia will call on the committee chair, James Comer, to summon the vice-president to speak, according to a post from Max Cohen, a reporter with Punchbowl News. The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment about whether Vance would agree to appear.
According to the New York Times report, the Epstein files became the source of an internal crisis within Trump’s administration. Vance warned fellow officials the controversy represented a “huge problem” while senior aides held a series of Situation Room meetings – frequently without Trump present – to address the growing issue.
According to the Times, the White House chief of staff, Susie Wiles, felt that Vance was exaggerating the significance of the matter and believed he had “bought into the conspiracy theories”. That reporting appears to have prompted Garcia’s request. “Why are we having meetings in the Situation Room about the Epstein strategy?” he said to Punchbowl.
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/11/vance-epstein-files-testify-house-democrats
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