The House on Tuesday is expected to vote to order the Department of Justice to release all of its files on notorious sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, two days after President Donald Trump abruptly dropped his opposition to the bipartisan bill.
The measure is set to come up during the chamber’s first vote series of the day around 2 p.m. ET, NBC News reported.
“Almost everybody” will vote to pass it, House Majority Whip Tom Emmer, R-Minn., told NBC on Monday night.
That wasn’t always the case. The push to release the Epstein files had faced opposition from GOP lawmakers, following the lead of Trump, whose White House had warned that backing the effort would be considered a “hostile act.”
A discharge petition that would have forced a vote on the bill was jammed up during the government shutdown, as House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., kept representatives out of session for nearly eight weeks. The prolonged absence delayed the swearing-in of Democratic Rep. Adelita Grijalva of Arizona, the final signature needed to move the petition forward.
