Hakeem Jeffries Outright Accuses House Republicans of Working To ‘Cover Up for the Pedophiles’

Michael Luciano Oct 8th, 2025, 11:40 pm

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) claimed that congressional Republicans are covering up for “pedophiles” by continuing to block a measure seeking to force the release of government files relating to Jeffrey Epstein .

The House of Representatives is currently one vote short of the 218 votes needed to force a vote regarding the Department of Justice’s files on the deceased child sex trafficker who had been friends with President Donald Trump .

The deciding vote could be cast by Rep.-Elect Adelita Grijalva (D-AZ), who won a special election in Arizona’s seventh congressional district last month. However, Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA

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