A “pathetically humiliated” Speaker Mike Johnson was visibly fuming when his plan for an Epstein files bill blew up in his face.

The Republican said he was “deeply disappointed” that the Senate passed legislation to declassify files related to Jeffrey Epstein without amending it—something he was clearly taken aback by as he left a state dinner.

“I was just told that Chuck Schumer rushed it to the floor and put it out there preemptively,” he told a MS NOW reporter on Tuesday. “It needed amendments.”

The bill in question had already passed the House with flying colors, with only a single GOP representative voting against it. Johnson demanded that his fellow Republicans in the Senate make changes to the legislation before sending it back to the House.

Senate Leader John Thune, a Republi

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