House won't vote on Epstein matter this week
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.
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