'Swear Her in!' Republican Frantically Adjourns House to Avoid Swearing in New Member to Duck Epstein Files Vote

Source: MEDIAite

Sep 30th, 2025, 5:33 pm


Republicans swiftly adjourned the House session Tuesday as Democrats shouted for a newly-elected Democratic member to be sworn in. Rep.-elect Adelita Grijalva (D-AZ) won a special election on Sept. 23, easily trouncing her Republican opponent in the deep-blue district 69% to 29%.

Grijalva will succeed her father, Rep. Raul Grijalva (D-AZ), who died on March 13, in representing Arizona’s 7th district — as soon as she is sworn in. House Republicans are dragging their feet on letting Grijalva officially join their ranks, and it’s looking increasingly likely that the government shutdown deadline at midnight could arrive without Grijalva being sworn in, further delaying her officially becoming a member of Congress.

Widely speculated as contributing to the reason for the delay in swearing in Grijalva is the vote to release the Epstein files, as she would be the 218th vote to pass the bill in the House. There has been a lot of demand — including from President Donald Trump’s MAGA base — to release the files related to deceased convicted sexual predator Jeffrey Epstein and his former girlfriend and accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell, and documents obtained by media outlets have only heightened the interest in bringing transparency to the matter.

Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY), one of the Republican sponsors of the bipartisan measure to release the Epstein files, confirmed to reporters just after Grijalva’s special election victory that she would be the 218 vote to pass the bill.

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