The bill, if enacted, would require the justice department to release all unclassified materials on the disgraced financier
US politics live: House to vote on release of Epstein files
The intensively discussed files into the disgraced former financier and sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein seem almost certain to pass a significant milestone on Tuesday when representatives on Capitol Hill consider their fate in a vote that long seemed uncertain to take place.
After months of deliberate delays and manoeuvres, the House of Representatives will vote on the Epstein Files Transparency Act, legislation which would, if enacted, require the justice department to release all unclassified materials on Epstein, who died in jail in 2019 while awaiting trial on sex-trafficking charges.
An emphatic vote in favor seems inevitable after Donald Trump on Sunday reversed himself and called for the release of the files, declaring “we have nothing to hide” and labelling the controversy over the files a “Democrat hoax”.
