Speaker Mike Johnson said that the House will hold a vote next week on a bill forcing the Department of Justice to release the full, unclassified Jeffrey Epstein files—despite his own long-standing opposition to the discharge petition that triggered the vote.

“It’s a totally pointless exercise,” Johnson said on Wednesday (November 12). “It is completely moot now. We might as well just do it. I mean they have 218 signatures, that’s fine. We’ll do it.”

What the Epstein Files Transparency Act would do

The legislation—The Epstein Files Transparency Act—requires Attorney General Pam Bondi to publicly release all unclassified DOJ records related to Jeffrey Epstein.

The bill mandates the DOJ to publish a searchable, downloadable archive of:

-Records on Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell

-Names o

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