Republican lawmakers have blocked a move that could have forced President Donald Trump's administration to release the files on Jeffrey Epstein's investigation.

The matter made its way into the political discourse as the House Rules Committee considered the issue, after a failed attempt by the Democrats to force a vote in Congress on whether the Epstein files should be made public.

As one of the oldest standing committees in Congress, the group’s key role concerns the flow of legislation to the House floor.

Khanna’s amendment was in effect a procedural measure that was tacked on to the GENIUS Act, which relates to digital assets such as crypto currency. If the amendment had been passed, it would have forced Attorney General Pam Bondi to publish the Epstein documents on a “publicly accessible website.”

  • SleepyBear@lemmy.world
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    5 days ago

    What I really wanna know is…the last we heard from the government on this the Epstein files “didnt exist”. So they just voted on whether or not to release files that may or may not exist? (I know they do and this is classic fed gov lying about what information they have). But why lie about the existence of said files only to turn around and have a vote on if theyre to be released publically?

    • MyTurtleSwimsUpsideDown@fedia.io
      7·
      5 days ago

      the government

      1. These are different silos of information within the government. One demanding that the other release the information that they have.
      2. Congress could demand the DOJ release of the pee tape, the identity of any and all the reptilians in government, or photographs the moon landing set; it doesn’t mean that any of those things exist, or that the DOJ has access to them.
      3. The files exist. Everyone agrees on that. What the Bondi claims is that a client list does not exist, even though she said the client list was on her desk a little while back. She is now trying to ret-con that she meant that “the files” were on her desk, not a client list specifically.