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Trump and Republicans Swamped by Demands for Epstein Files

House votes overwhelmingly to compel the release of government documents.
Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene at a news conference with some of Jeffrey Epstein’s victims.Photographer: Graeme Sloan/Bloomberg

This is Washington Edition, the newsletter about money, power and politics in the nation’s capital. Today, senior editor Joe Sobczyk looks at the House vote to release the government’s files on Jeffrey Epstein. Sign up here . Email our editors here .

The near-unanimous House vote to release all of the government’s files on convicted sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein marked a rare reversal of fortune for President Donald Trump at the hands of his fellow Republicans.