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# House Panel Defies Trump in Vote to Subpoena Epstein Files

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_Published 2025-07-24. The House Oversight Committee is preparing to subpoena the Justice Department for its files related to the sex trafficking investigation into the disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein, after three Republicans broke with their party to join Democrats to vote on the matter. In an 8-to-2 vote late Wednesday, the panel’s Federal Law Enforcement Subcommittee approved the motion to compel the release of records, a rare moment of bipartisan agreement regarding an investigation that has long been shrouded in mystery._


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Right now, Speaker Johnson is helping Donald Trump block the release of all the files relating to child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein. If you want to take a stand against child trafficking, let's do it together. When powerful people exploit children, they must be held accountable for their actions. And if they try to mislead the public and hide evidence, we can't let them get away with it. So we can't allow individuals, especially those at the highest level of our government, to protect child sex traffickers. So today, uh, that's why I will be offering a motion to subpoena the Department of Justice to release the Epstein files.

Numerous members of this committee and this subcommittee have called for answers and transparency. So let's do something about it. How do you traffic 1000 kids and only have one accomplice? Like that? Just doesn't make sense to me. Um, and I'm for full transparency of all pedophiles and for making sure that we go after those who've raped kids who've done the worst of the worst. So thank you, Mr. Chairman. And I yield back. Miss miss miss miss votes I, Mr. Perry. Mr. Perry votes. Aye, miss. Boebert. Mr.. Jack. Mr.. Jack votes aye, miss Lee. Miss Lee votes yes, Mr. Bell. Mr. Bell votes aye, Miss.

Simon. Miss Simon votes aye. Miss Presley, miss Presley votes aye, Mr. Garcia. Aye. Mr. Garcia votes aye, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, votes no. Mr. Biggs is not recorded. Mr. Biggs. Mr. chairman, on this vote the the I's are eight, the nays are two. The subcommittee stands adjourned.

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