WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Senate Republican leaders, including Wyoming’s John Barrasso, allowed legislation on the Epstein files to pass Wednesday with no debate or amendments, ignoring U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson’s insistence on changes.

Johnson, a Louisiana Republican, made his pleas on the House floor just ahead of that chamber’s 427-1 vote on Tuesday. He said the bill was written "haphazardly."

After House passage, Reuters reports that aides to President Donald Trump then pushed senators behind the scenes to make changes.

The Reuters report said those aides were “quietly lobbying senators to slow-walk a vote.”

Instead, just hours after the House vote, Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer of New York sought unanimous consent for the Senate to pass the House’s bill unch

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