The House speaker announced that lawmakers would leave a day early for a five-week break from Washington as tensions soar over Epstein files.

In an statement shared with Newsweek, the White House denied that an encounter described by Farmer took place.

Representative Ted Lieu said “Trump is all over the Epstein files.” He called the Republican lawmakers’ move “a coverup of epic proportions.”

Washington — House Speaker Mike Johnson said there will not be a vote before Congress' August recess on a resolution that calls on the Trump administration to release more files related to child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

But after a handful of Republicans temporarily stalled the $9 billion rescissions package last week over the Epstein issue, Speaker Mike Johnson does not appear likely to entertain further consideration of the matter before setting the House free on a five-week recess that stretches past Labor Day.

House Republicans won't vote on a nonbinding resolution calling for the release of more information about the convicted sex offender who died in prison in 2019.

Martin Luther King Jr.’s daughter on Monday called for the Trump administration to release the “Epstein files.” Bernice King, the same day the administration released records on the FBI’s surveillance of her father, requested more transparency on an issue that the president has been trying leave behind him: his ties to sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

A sudden resurgence of interest in the late convicted sex offender, and unanswered questions about his crimes, has been measurable this month in book sales, Netflix streams and YouTube searches.

As Trump faces pressure to release more information regarding Epstein, reports are coming out that the two men knew each other well.

Attorney General Pam Bondi has cited the release of the 2006 Florida transcripts in her request for grand jury materials from a federal court.