House Speaker Mike Johnson is calling his do-nothing Republican conference back to Washington, D.C., as a vote to end the longest government shutdown in history could take place any day.
And while the shutdown’s end may frustrate Democratic voters who wanted to see their party extract more concessions from the GOP, there is a silver lining: The long-awaited vote to force President Donald Trump’s administration to release the Epstein files is now on the horizon.
When the House returns, Johnson will finally swear in Democratic Rep.-elect Adelita Grijalva, who has been waiting to take the oath of office since winning her special election on Sept. 23.
Seemingly, Johnson has declined to swear Grijalva in because she will be the 218th signature on a petition to force a vote on a bill that wou

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