California’s retaliatory gerrymander began as a threat to scare off Texas from moving forward with new Trump-sought maps. But as Texas moved forward, and California’s proposal became a serious legislative proposal, supporters of the plan, known as Prop 50, said it would include trigger language, asking voters to approve new House districts that would only take effect if Texas proceeded.

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That language was ultimately stripped from the bill as it sped through the California state legislature in August. At the time, Democratic lawmakers argued that Texas had already moved ahead with its map, drawn to help Republicans flip five Democratic-held House seats and preserve their fragile House majority for the final two years of Trump’s term.The fact that the Texas legislature was on track to approving the redistrtcing bill, California Democrats argued, effectively rendered the “trigger” language unnecessary.

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Now a federal judge has blocked Texas from using its newly redrawn maps, finding that there was “substantial evidence” of racial gerrymandering.

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Yet California’s map, which favors Democrats and was decisively approved by voters earlier this month, is still expected to take effect for the next three election cycles.

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Paul Mitchell, who drew the maps for Prop 50, told the LA Times that they would : “Our legislature eliminated the trigger because Texas had already triggered it.”

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The Texas governor, Greg Abbott has said he plans to appeal the ruling to the Supreme Court. But if the Texas map is struck down, California’s gerrymander designed to “neutralize” the Texas map would instead give Democrats a decisive edge in the 2026 midterms, likely to be decided by razor thin margins.

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In a post on X, the California governor, Gavin Newsom, called the ruling a “win for Texas, and for every American who fights for free and fair elections”.

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The Justice Department is suing California over its map, accusing Democrats of using race as a factor to favor Hispanic voters. Democrats have expressed confidence that it would withstand legal scrutiny.

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Annie Farmer, a survivor of sexual abuse by Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, welcomed the passage of the Epstein Files Transparency Act by the House on Tuesday.

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The legislation, which requires the justice department to release files from the federal investigation into Epstein’s crimes, will automatically pass the Senate when it arrives there from the House, likely on Wednesday.

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My sister, Maria Farmer, first reported Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell to federal authorities nearly three decades ago. Since then, survivors – myself included – have been left in the dark about how our reports were investigated, who was involved in our abuse and trafficking, and why Epstein and Maxwell were able to get away with inflicting pain on so many women and girls for years. We are thankful that Reps. Massie and Khanna have pushed this measure forward and have continued to advocate for the release of the Epstein files once and for all. But today’s actions are only part of the solution — Maria’s lawsuit, which aims to hold the federal government accountable for their mismanagement of her reported abuse, is still ongoing. We hope her suit finally brings much deserved transparency and accountability for all those implicated.

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Jamie Dupree, a veteran congressional correspondent, reported on social media on Tuesday evening that “the House may not walk the Epstein Files bill over to the Senate until Wednesday.”

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A short time later, Dupree noted that the Senate had adjourned until Wednesday morning. “That means no final action tonight on the Epstein Files bill,” he wrote. “The bill papers are still on the House side of the Capitol.”

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While it is not, as even the QAnon Shaman can attest, a long walk from one side of the Capitol to the other, the House leadership might have delayed transmitting the Epstein Transparency Act to the Senate immediately to keep Donald Trump from having to sign it during the visit of the Saudi crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman.

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Trump and the first lady, Melania Trump, just welcomed the Saudi crown prince back to the White House for a formal dinner on Tuesday night. The first lady wore a green gown, perhaps in honor of the Saudi flag.

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An unnamed senior administration official told NBC News on Tuesday that Donald Trump will sign the legislation requiring the justice department to release files on Jeffrey Epstein, the late sex offender Trump socialized with for more than 15 years.

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“The bill will be signed whenever it gets to the White House” the official said, according to Garrett Haake, NBC’s senior White House correspondent.

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Writing on his social media platform, Donald Trump claimed on Tuesday to be unconcerned about the legislation making its way to his desk, which would compel the justice department to release investigative files on Jeffrey Epstein, the late sex offender Trump socialized with for more than 15 years.

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“I don’t care when the Senate passes the House Bill, whether tonight, or at some other time in the near future, I just don’t want Republicans to take their eyes off all of the Victories that we’ve had”, Trump wrote, before going on to list what he called his great achievements in office.

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The president did not indicate whether he would sign the legislation into law, or veto it.

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Even if he does sign the bill, the justice department could argue that some of the documents gathered by federal investigators before Epstein’s death in jail in 2019 need to be kept private if they relate to the new investigations into prominent Democrats Trump ordered last week.

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The Senate just agreed to a unanimous consent request from the Democratic minority leader, Chuck Schumer, to pass the Epstein Files Transparency Act as soon as the legislation arrives from the House.

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Chris Murphy, a Democratic senator, explains on X that “the Senate just ‘deemed as passed’ the Epstein resolution”, which means that “as soon as it arrives from the House, it automatically passes the Senate (with no amendments) and heads to the President’s desk. Wow.”

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Karen Attiah was Jamal Khashoggi’s editor at the Washington Post when the columnist was murdered, according to US intelligence, on the orders of Donald’s Trump’s guest in the Oval Office on Tuesday, Mohammed bin Salman, known as MBS.

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Attiah reacted to the spectacle of the Saudi leader being welcomed to the White House with anger and dismay, writing on Bluesky: “MBS is getting the blood-red carpet treatment to the White House. Vile and disgusting. Absolute thugs rule us.”

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“I will never forget having to edit Jamal’s final, posthumous piece for the Washington Post, after he was murdered,” she also wrote, sharing a link to the 2018 column. “He was calling for free expression in the Arab world.”

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In an an opinion piece for the Guardian on Tuesday, Attiah wrote:

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In September 2017, while I was the editor of the Washington Post’s global opinion section, I asked Jamal to write for us. He published “Saudi Arabia was not always this repressive, but now it’s unbearable”, breaking his year-long silence. I hired him to continue to write for the Washington Post.

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A year later, Saudi Arabia had Jamal killed. In the aftermath of Jamal’s murder, Trump administration officials worked overtime to launder Saudi Arabia’s blood-stained image. Jared Kushner was advising Prince Mohammed on how to “weather the storm”. Last year, Kushner’s equity firm received $2bn from Saudi Arabia’s private equity firm.

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Read the full column here:

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Marty Baron, the former executive editor of the Washington Post, called Donald Trump’s remarks on Tuesday, in which the president dismissed concerns about the Saudi regime’s 2018 murder of the Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi, “a disgrace” in an email to TheWrap.

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As our colleague Julian Borger reports, when an ABC News reporter confronted Trump’s guest, Mohammed bin Salman, the de facto ruler of Saudi Arabia, over the US intelligence assessment that he ordered the brutal murder of the dissident Saudi columnist, Trump stepped in to defend the Saudi leader, saying that “a lot of people didn’t like” the murder victim before pointing at bin Salman, and adding: “things happened, but he knew nothing about it”.

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Trump then attacked the reporter, Mary Bruce, and suggested that the FCC should strip ABC of its broadcast license because she asked what the president called “a horrible, insubordinate and just a terrible question” of the Saudi leader, a man the president said was “highly respected”.

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Trump’s comments were a disgrace,” Baron wrote to TheWrap, a media business outlet. “‘Things happen,’ he said. Actually, someone made them happen. And that was the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia. He had Jamal Khashoggi assassinated, and then he and his government lied about what happened.”

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Trump couldn’t care less about the killing of a journalist unless he viewed that journalist as a supporter of his,” Baron continued. “In this instance, he suggests the killing was justified on the grounds that ‘a lot of people didn’t like’ Khashoggi. And then he ignores the facts of the brutal murder itself, suggesting MBS was clueless. Just when you think Trump has gone as low as possible, he goes still lower.”

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Three weeks after Trump left office in 2021, US intelligence agencies concluded that the crown prince, known as MBS, “approved an operation in Istanbul, Turkey to capture or kill Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi” and noted “the Crown Prince’s support for using violent measures to silence dissidents abroad”.

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  The US House overwhelmingly approved a bill demanding that the Justice Department release all files related to its investigation into the convicted sex offender, Jeffrey Epstein. The finally tally was 427-1, with five members not voting. The near-unanimous vote was the culmination of a months-long effort led by a bipartisan group of House members that initially faced deep opposition from the president and House leadership. But as it became clear the Speaker’s manoeuvring to prevent a vote on the petition would not succeed, Trump reversed course and threw his support behind the effort.

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  The bill next moves to the Senate. If it is approved by the upper chamber, it would then go to Trump for his signature. After the House voted today, the Senate’s top Republican, John Thune told reporters that a vote on the bill would happen “fairly quickly”. Thune added that it’s “not likely” the legislation will have any further amendments. This, despite calls from House speaker Mike Johnson and several GOP lawmakers, to make changes to further protect victims’ identities. A reminder, provisions to redact names and child abuse materials are already part of the legislation. For his part, Donald Trump has signaled he would sign the bill if it reached his desk.

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  A panel of federal judges has ruled that Texas cannot use the 2025 congressional map for the midterms. Instead, the state must use the 2021 boundaries in the upcoming election. The map, drawn by the GOP lawmakers in Texas at the behest of Donald Trump, was the catalyst of a nationwide redistricting battle. In response, California voters passed a ballot initiative to redraw their own maps, offsetting the five seats that Republicans gained in Texas in the process. In today’s ruling, the judges, which included a Trump appointee, said that the creation of a new map appeared unconstitutional and “racially gerrymandered”.

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  Meanwhile, at the White House today, the president welcomed Saudi Arabia’s de facto leader, Mohammed bin Salman. It was the crown prince’s first visit to Washingtong since the 2018 killing of Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi by Saudi agents in Istanbul. In the Oval Office, Trump brushed off questions from a reporter about MBS’s role in Khashoggi’s killing, saying “things happen”. The president added that bin Salman “knew nothing about it, and we can leave it at that”. In 2021 US intelligence concluded that bin Salman had approved the capture or killing of Khashoggi, a fierce critic of the Saudi regime.

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  When it came to matters of business, MBS announced Saudi Arabia was raising its planned investments in the US to almost $1tn, up from $600bn that the Saudis said they planned to invest when Trump visited the kingdom in May. Trump also confirmed that he had agreed to sell the Saudis F-35 fighter jets despite some concerns within the administration that the sale could lead to China gaining access to the US technology behind the advanced weapon system.

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  The Department of Education (ED) announced today that it is outsourcing a number of its functions to different agencies, in a move that is part of the administration’s wider plans to totally dismantle the department. The ED said that through six new interagency agreements, with the Department of Labor, Department of the Interior, and Department of Health and Human Services, it would “break up the federal education bureaucracy” and “move closer to fulfilling the President’s promise to return education to the states”.

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The Department of Education (ED) announced today that it is outsourcing a number of its functions to different agencies, in a move that is part of the administration’s wider plans to totally dismantle the department.

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The ED said that through six new interagency agreements, with the Department of Labor, Department of the Interior, and Department of Health and Human Services, it would “break up the federal education bureaucracy” and “move closer to fulfilling the President’s promise to return education to the states”.

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Trump ran on the promise that he would do away with the department responsible for the country’s education policy, and in March, he signed an executive order to dismantle the agency. Shuttering it outright requires congressional approval, but under the guise of education secretary, Linda McMahon, the scope of the department has diminished.

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John Thune, the majority leader and top Senate Republican, said that a vote on the full release of the Epstein files will happen “fairly quickly”.

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Speaking to reporters on the Hill after the House voted, almost unanimously, for the justice department to release their complete trove of documents relating to the disgraced financier, Thune said that it’s “not likely” the legislation will have any further amendments. This, despite calls from House speaker Mike Johnson and several GOP lawmakers, to make changes to further protect victims’ identities.

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A reminder, provisions to redact names and child abuse materials are already part of the legislation.

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The US House overwhelmingly approved a bill demanding that the Justice Department release all files related to its investigation into the convicted sex offender, Jeffrey Epstein. The finally tally was 427-1, with five members not voting.

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Cheers rang out in the chamber, when the gavel banged the vote closed.

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Congressman Clay Higgins of Louisiana, a staunch ally of Donald Trump, was the sole House member to vote against the measure.

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The near-unanimous vote was the culmination of a months-long effort led by a bipartisan group of House members that initially faced deep opposition from the president and House leadership. But as it became clear the Speaker’s manoeuvring to prevent a vote on the petition would not succeed, Trump reversed course and threw his support behind the effort.

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The bill next moves to the Senate. If it is approved by the upper chamber, it would then go to Trump for his signature. Trump told reporters on Monday he would sign the legislation if it reached his desk – still an if.

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Democrats, as well as the bill’s bipartisan sponsors, have called on Trump not to wait for Congress to act and instead to order the Justice Department to release the files, which he has the power to do.

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House members are now voting on the petition to compel the Justice Department to release the Epstein files.

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A panel of federal judges has ruled that Texas cannot use the 2025 congressional map for the midterms. Instead, the state must use the 2021 boundaries in the upcoming election.

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The map, drawn by the GOP lawmakers in Texas at the behest of Donald Trump, was the catalyst of a nationwide redistricting battle. In response, California voters passed a ballot initiative to redraw their own maps, offsetting the five seats that Republicans gained in Texas in the process.

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In today’s ruling, the judges, which included a Trump appointee, said that the creation of a new map appeared unconstitutional and “racially gerrymandered”.

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In the Oval Office, an ABC reporter addressed the elephant in the room, asking whether why Americans should trust bin Salman given that US intelligence concluded that he orchestrated the brutal murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi.

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Trump blasted ABC News as fake news, before contradicting US intelligence on Saudi prince’s role in Khashoggi death:

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You’re mentioning somebody that was extremely controversial. A lot of people didn’t like that gentleman [Khashoggi] that you’re talking about. Whether you like him or didn’t like him, things happen. But he [bin Salman] knew nothing about it. And we can leave it at that. You don’t have to embarrass our guest by asking something like that.

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However, US intelligence concluded in 2021 that bin Salman approved the capture or killing of Khashoggi at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul in 2018. The crown prince denied ordering the operation but acknowledged responsibility as the kingdom’s de facto ruler.

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Follow along with the latest developments from the crown prince’s visit to the White House.

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Top Senate Democrat, Chuck Schumer, said today that “once the House passes the bill to release the Epstein files,” he will “move for the Senate to immediately take it up and pass it – period.”

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In a statement, he added: “Republicans have spent months trying to protect Donald Trump and hide what’s in the files. Americans are tired of waiting and are demanding to see the truth. If Leader Thune tries to bury the bill, I’ll stop him.”

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The US House has begun debating the bill to release the justice department files on Jeffrey Epstein.

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Thomas Massie, the Republican congressman who co-let the bipartisan discharge petition to force a vote on the House floor, said he was “thankful to the three brave women: Marjorie Taylor Greene, Nancy Mace, Lauren Bobert”. These are the only other GOP lawmakers who signed the petition.

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“They have been intimidated by people in our own party,” Massie said. “I congratulate them for standing strong.”

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In his opening remarks, Trump said Saudi Arabia has agreed to invest $600bn in the US. “That number could go up a little bit higher,” he added. “But I don’t know, we’ll see.”

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Bin Salman noted that Saudi Arabia “believes in the future of America” and is going to increase its pledge to almost $1tn of investment in the United States.

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Trump went on to say that he and the crown prince have been “really good friends for a long period of time”.

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Speaking at a news conference on Capitol Hill, the ranking member of the House oversight committee, Robert Garcia, said that the president “has the power” to release the complete Epstein files, without a vote in Congress.

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“In fact, a few months ago, the oversight committee put in place a subpoena for all of the files through the department of justice, and still they have released nothing. And so at the end of the day, Donald Trump today can bring justice for the survivors and he refuses to do so,” Garcia added.

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Mohammed bin Salman has arrived at the White House, met by Donald Trump and complete with a military honor guard, a cannon salute, and a flyover by US warplanes – which included F35s. My colleague, Lucy Campbell is covering the latest at our dedicated live blog.

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She notes that the two men chatted while walking along the row of presidential portraits on the colonnade at the White House, which Trump recently unveiled as the “Presidential Walk of Fame”.

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Today, Mike Johnson said he would support the vote to release the full trove of justice department files on Jeffrey Epstein.

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“I’m going to vote to move this forward. I think it could be close to a unanimous vote, because everybody here, all the Republicans, want to go on record to show your maximum transparency,” he said. “I sincerely hope my Democrat colleagues will show the same level of urgency and enthusiasm when it comes to tackling the real issues facing we got to get to.”

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However, one of Mike Johnson’s frequent criticisms of the discharge petition is that, he says, it fails to protect victims and redact child abuse materials. The House speaker added he spoke to the Senate’s leader, John Thune, and he’s “very confident” that the upper chamber “will take the time methodically to do what we have not been allowed to do in the House, to amend this discharge position, and to make sure these protections are there.”

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Earlier, Thomas Massie, the Kentucky Republican co-leading the discharge petition to compel a vote on the House floor, said this is a “red herring”, and “survivors have always been in favor of this legislation”. Massie said that Johnson is “trying to save face after opposing this [petition]”.

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An amendment in the Senate would mean the bill pinballs back to the House, delaying its possible passage.

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House speaker Mike Johnson said that the move to release the justice department files on Jeffrey Epstein is a “political show vote”.

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Earlier, we noted that Johnson said he would back the bill, according to Axios.

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“Democrats are trying to use the Epstein matter as a political weapon to distract from the own party’s failures, and in a desperate attempt to try to somehow tie President Trump to the scandal,” Johnson said at a press conference today.

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The House speaker has maintained that the oversight committee’s ongoing investigation into Epstein is yielding sufficient results. “They’re already producing far more than the discharge petition anticipates,” he said, citing the roughly 65,000 documents produced, which include records from the disgraced financier’s estate.

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Donald Trump will welcome Saudi Arabia’s de facto leader to the White House shortly.

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My colleague, Lucy Campbell, will be covering the latest developments. This will be the first trip by Mohammed bin Salman, widely known as MBS, to the US since the 2018 killing of Saudi critic Jamal Khashoggi by Saudi agents in Istanbul, which triggered global outrage. It will also be his first trip during Trump’s second term in office.

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US intelligence concluded that MBS approved the capture or killing of Khashoggi. The crown prince denied ordering the operation but acknowledged responsibility as the kingdom’s de facto ruler.

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During a day of White House diplomacy, MBS will hold talks with Trump in the Oval Office, have lunch in the Cabinet Room and attend a formal black-tie dinner in the evening.

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Trump hopes to cash in on a $600bn Saudi investment pledge made during his visit to the kingdom in May. A senior White House official told Reuters that US-Saudi deals on technology, manufacturing, defence and more are expected.

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Georgia congresswoman, Marjorie Taylor Greene, noted today that the fissure within the GOP over the Epstein files has been “one of the most destructive things to Maga”.

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“The only thing that will speak to the powerful, courageous women behind me is when action is actually taken to release these files,” she added. “The American people won’t tolerate any other bullshit.”

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A reminder that Greene is in the midst of her own battle with Donald Trump, to whom she was an ardent loyalist. The president has branded her a “traitor” after she signed the discharge petition to compel a House vote on the release of the justice department’s records on Epstein.

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Republican speaker of the House, Mike Johnson, is set to back the vote to release the full trove of justice department files on Jeffrey Epstein, according to Axios. They cite a source in the room during Tuesday’s GOP conference meeting.

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The speaker has said he wants further protection for victims, which would require an amendment in the Senate, and for the House to vote on it again. Although the bill, as it stands, redacts names of victims and examples of child abuse within the files.

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“The important thing about the Senate is that they need not to muck this bill up,” Republican congressman Thomas Massie said.

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Sky Roberts, the brother of one of Epstein’s most prominent victims, Virginia Giuffre, implored lawmakers to “stop talking and act”.

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Giuffre died by suicide in April, after years of speaking out about the abuse she endured. “My sister is not a political tool for you to use. These survivors are not political tools for you to use. These are real stories, real trauma,” Roberts said today. “We will not let Virginia’s fight be in vain together. We will not let the predators win together.”

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Several survivors of Jeffrey Epstein’s abuse are set to speak outside the US Capitol shortly. They’re joining the congressman Ro Khanna, a Democrat, and Republican representative Thomas Massie – who co-led the bipartisan effort to force a House floor vote for the complete release of justice department files on Epstein.

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Also speaking today is congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene, a Republican who has been one of Trump’s most loyal allies in Congress. In recent days, she’s found herself on the receiving end of the president’s wrath while pushing for the release of the files.

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Federal immigration agents are widening their crackdown in the state to include the city of Raleigh, the Democratic mayor of the state’s capital has said.

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The operation began on the weekend in Charlotte, with federal agents swooping on and arresting more than 130 people in a blitz across the city. Agents were expected to move into Raleigh on Tuesday.

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The operations in North Carolina follow those launched in Los Angeles and Chicago – both deep blue cities run by nationally prominent officials who have openly criticised the White House.

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The other big event for Trump today is the official visit of Saudi Arabia’s de facto leader Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, who has been welcomed back at the White House for the first time since the 2018 killing of Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi by Saudi agents.

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US-Saudi relations deteriorated after Khashoggi’s brutal killing. He had been a fierce critic of the kingdom; US intelligence concluded that bin Salman had most likely ordered state agents to kill him.

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But seven years later, and with Saudi Arabia a critical ally to the US in the Middle East, Trump has smoothed over that dark chapter in the relationship.

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In May, he made Riydah the first stop of his tour to the Gulf States where he signed a $142 billion arms deal.

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And today’s he’s prepared a lavish welcome for the prince at the White House- rolling out the red carpet with a fly-by, gun salute and a gala dinner.

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“We’re more than meeting,” Trump told reporters on Air Force One on Friday when asked about the visit. “We’re honoring Saudi Arabia, the Crown Prince.”

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We can expect deals on defence and nuclear. Trump has made a priority of boosting ties with the oil-rich Gulf kingdom, and said on Monday he would sell coveted F-35 stealth fighters to Saudi Arabia, despite concerns from Israel.

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He’s also expected to sign a deal on a framework for civilian nuclear cooperation, AFP reported, and push Prince Mohammed to normalise relations with Israel after the war in Gaza.

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Saudi Arabia yesterday was one of the key Arab states backing the UN Security Council’s US-drafted resolution which endorses an International Stabilisation Force to be deployed to Gaza.

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In July, Democratic congressmen Ro Khanna and Republican Thomas Massie turned to an arcane procedural tactic known as a discharge petition to circumvent House leadership and compel a vote on their bill, the Epstein Files Transparency Act, if a majority of the 435-member House signs on.

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House speaker Mike Johnson went to extraordinary lengths to avoid a vote on the the measure, which splintered his conference. Democrats accused the speaker of delaying the swearing-in of Arizona Democrat Adelita Grijalva to prevent her from becoming the decisive 218th signatory. She signed her name to the petition moments after being sworn in last week.

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Following Trump’s reversal, several House Republicans, including close allies of the president, have publicly stated their intent to vote for the release of the files, meaning the measure could pass unanimously.

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If the House passes the resolution, it would move to the Senate, which would also need to vote on it before sending it to Trump to sign. Republican Senate majority leader John Thune’s office declined to comment on what he planned to do about the bill.

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In an interview with Pod Save America on Monday, Khanna, the California congressman leading the push in the House, said he now expects the measure to move “quickly” through the Senate.

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In an X post directed to Trump on Monday, Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer wrote: “Let’s make this easier. Just release the files now.”

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The bill, if enacted, would require the justice department to release all unclassified materials on the disgraced financier, who died in jail in 2019 while awaiting trial on sex-trafficking charges.

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An emphatic vote in favour of the bill seems inevitable, and after Trump changed his mind on the weekend, several other Republicans could join their party colleagues in voting for the bill.

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But there are still other hurdles before the files see the light of day.

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The bill would go before the Senate, where the Republican majority leader, John Thune, has not committed to holding a vote. However, an overwhelming House vote in favour could make it morally difficult for the Senate to refuse to stage a vote. Sixty out of the chamber’s 100 senators would need to back it, to overcome the Senate’s filibuster rule.

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The bill then goes to the president’s desk. Trump told reporters on Monday that he would sign it if it arrived on his desk, but he does have veto powers. A presidential veto can be overcome but it’s a significant barrier.

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Trump’s friendship with Epstein has been a long-running scandal in American politics as the late disgraced financier had links to many other rich and powerful figures in the US and overseas.

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Trump had previously said that he fell out with Epstein years before the convictions and he’s helped fan the conspiracies.

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As a candidate seeking re-election, he also promised to release the files on Epstein, who, investigators concluded, killed himself in a New York jail cell in 2019.

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Since resuming office so far though, Trump has failed to follow through. As president, he has the authority to order the justice department to release the documents in its possession, as he has previously done with the government records related to the assassinations of Martin Luther King and John F Kennedy.

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The president’s dramatic shift came after it became increasingly apparent that the bill will pass the House, most likely with significant support from Republican lawmakers.

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Trump and House speaker Mike Johnson changed their approach from outright opposition to declarations of indifference.

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“I DON’T CARE!” Trump wrote in a social media post on Sunday. “All I do care about is that Republicans get BACK ON POINT.”

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Speaking in the Oval Office on Monday, Trump said he did not want the Epstein scandal to “deflect” from the White House’s successes, and claimed it was a “hoax” and “a Democrat problem”.

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“We’ll give them everything,” he told reporters. “Let the Senate look at it, let anybody look at it, but don’t talk about it too much, because honestly, I don’t want to take it away from us.”

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The issue has become a rare weak spot for the president with his supporters. An October poll showed just four in 10 approved of his handling of the matter, compared with the nine in 10 who approve of his overall performance.

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Before the new Republican congressional maps for Texas were struck down on Tuesday by a federal court, Lloyd Doggett, a 79-year-old Texas Democrat from Austin had announced that he would retire next year rather than run against Greg Casar, a fellow Austin Democrat less than half his age, in a newly redrawn district that only one of them could represent.

After the court ruled the new map was illegal, and the old maps should be used for the 2026 midterms, Doggett called off his retirement in a statement posted on social media.

“To borrow from Mark Twain, I can happily say that the reports of my death, politically, are greatly exaggerated,” Doggett said. The new court order, he added: “means I have a renewed opportunity to continue serving the only town I’ve ever called home. While this decision, led by a Trump-appointed judge, will be appealed, I am hopeful of the outcome.”

California’s retaliatory gerrymander began as a threat to scare off Texas from moving forward with new Trump-sought maps. But as Texas moved forward, and California’s proposal became a serious legislative proposal, supporters of the plan, known as Prop 50, said it would include trigger language, asking voters to approve new House districts that would only take effect if Texas proceeded.

That language was ultimately stripped from the bill as it sped through the California state legislature in August. At the time, Democratic lawmakers argued that Texas had already moved ahead with its map, drawn to help Republicans flip five Democratic-held House seats and preserve their fragile House majority for the final two years of Trump’s term.The fact that the Texas legislature was on track to approving the redistrtcing bill, California Democrats argued, effectively rendered the “trigger” language unnecessary.

Now a federal judge has blocked Texas from using its newly redrawn maps, finding that there was “substantial evidence” of racial gerrymandering.

Yet California’s map, which favors Democrats and was decisively approved by voters earlier this month, is still expected to take effect for the next three election cycles.

Paul Mitchell, who drew the maps for Prop 50, told the LA Times that they would : “Our legislature eliminated the trigger because Texas had already triggered it.”

The Texas governor, Greg Abbott has said he plans to appeal the ruling to the Supreme Court. But if the Texas map is struck down, California’s gerrymander designed to “neutralize” the Texas map would instead give Democrats a decisive edge in the 2026 midterms, likely to be decided by razor thin margins.

The Justice Department is suing California over its map, accusing Democrats of using race as a factor to favor Hispanic voters. Democrats have expressed confidence that it would withstand legal scrutiny.

Annie Farmer, a survivor of sexual abuse by Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, welcomed the passage of the Epstein Files Transparency Act by the House on Tuesday.

The legislation, which requires the justice department to release files from the federal investigation into Epstein’s crimes, will automatically pass the Senate when it arrives there from the House, likely on Wednesday.

Farmer said in a statement sent to reporters on Tuesday:

My sister, Maria Farmer, first reported Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell to federal authorities nearly three decades ago. Since then, survivors – myself included – have been left in the dark about how our reports were investigated, who was involved in our abuse and trafficking, and why Epstein and Maxwell were able to get away with inflicting pain on so many women and girls for years. We are thankful that Reps. Massie and Khanna have pushed this measure forward and have continued to advocate for the release of the Epstein files once and for all. But today’s actions are only part of the solution — Maria’s lawsuit, which aims to hold the federal government accountable for their mismanagement of her reported abuse, is still ongoing. We hope her suit finally brings much deserved transparency and accountability for all those implicated.

Jamie Dupree, a veteran congressional correspondent, reported on social media on Tuesday evening that “the House may not walk the Epstein Files bill over to the Senate until Wednesday.”

A short time later, Dupree noted that the Senate had adjourned until Wednesday morning. “That means no final action tonight on the Epstein Files bill,” he wrote. “The bill papers are still on the House side of the Capitol.”

While it is not, as even the QAnon Shaman can attest, a long walk from one side of the Capitol to the other, the House leadership might have delayed transmitting the Epstein Transparency Act to the Senate immediately to keep Donald Trump from having to sign it during the visit of the Saudi crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman.

Trump and the first lady, Melania Trump, just welcomed the Saudi crown prince back to the White House for a formal dinner on Tuesday night. The first lady wore a green gown, perhaps in honor of the Saudi flag.

An unnamed senior administration official told NBC News on Tuesday that Donald Trump will sign the legislation requiring the justice department to release files on Jeffrey Epstein, the late sex offender Trump socialized with for more than 15 years.

“The bill will be signed whenever it gets to the White House” the official said, according to Garrett Haake, NBC’s senior White House correspondent.

Writing on his social media platform, Donald Trump claimed on Tuesday to be unconcerned about the legislation making its way to his desk, which would compel the justice department to release investigative files on Jeffrey Epstein, the late sex offender Trump socialized with for more than 15 years.

“I don’t care when the Senate passes the House Bill, whether tonight, or at some other time in the near future, I just don’t want Republicans to take their eyes off all of the Victories that we’ve had”, Trump wrote, before going on to list what he called his great achievements in office.

The president did not indicate whether he would sign the legislation into law, or veto it.

Even if he does sign the bill, the justice department could argue that some of the documents gathered by federal investigators before Epstein’s death in jail in 2019 need to be kept private if they relate to the new investigations into prominent Democrats Trump ordered last week.

The Senate just agreed to a unanimous consent request from the Democratic minority leader, Chuck Schumer, to pass the Epstein Files Transparency Act as soon as the legislation arrives from the House.

Chris Murphy, a Democratic senator, explains on X that “the Senate just ‘deemed as passed’ the Epstein resolution”, which means that “as soon as it arrives from the House, it automatically passes the Senate (with no amendments) and heads to the President’s desk. Wow.”

Karen Attiah was Jamal Khashoggi’s editor at the Washington Post when the columnist was murdered, according to US intelligence, on the orders of Donald’s Trump’s guest in the Oval Office on Tuesday, Mohammed bin Salman, known as MBS.

Attiah reacted to the spectacle of the Saudi leader being welcomed to the White House with anger and dismay, writing on Bluesky: “MBS is getting the blood-red carpet treatment to the White House. Vile and disgusting. Absolute thugs rule us.”

“I will never forget having to edit Jamal’s final, posthumous piece for the Washington Post, after he was murdered,” she also wrote, sharing a link to the 2018 column. “He was calling for free expression in the Arab world.”

In an an opinion piece for the Guardian on Tuesday, Attiah wrote:

In September 2017, while I was the editor of the Washington Post’s global opinion section, I asked Jamal to write for us. He published “Saudi Arabia was not always this repressive, but now it’s unbearable”, breaking his year-long silence. I hired him to continue to write for the Washington Post.

A year later, Saudi Arabia had Jamal killed. In the aftermath of Jamal’s murder, Trump administration officials worked overtime to launder Saudi Arabia’s blood-stained image. Jared Kushner was advising Prince Mohammed on how to “weather the storm”. Last year, Kushner’s equity firm received $2bn from Saudi Arabia’s private equity firm.

Read the full column here:

Marty Baron, the former executive editor of the Washington Post, called Donald Trump’s remarks on Tuesday, in which the president dismissed concerns about the Saudi regime’s 2018 murder of the Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi, “a disgrace” in an email to TheWrap.

As our colleague Julian Borger reports, when an ABC News reporter confronted Trump’s guest, Mohammed bin Salman, the de facto ruler of Saudi Arabia, over the US intelligence assessment that he ordered the brutal murder of the dissident Saudi columnist, Trump stepped in to defend the Saudi leader, saying that “a lot of people didn’t like” the murder victim before pointing at bin Salman, and adding: “things happened, but he knew nothing about it”.

Trump then attacked the reporter, Mary Bruce, and suggested that the FCC should strip ABC of its broadcast license because she asked what the president called “a horrible, insubordinate and just a terrible question” of the Saudi leader, a man the president said was “highly respected”.

Trump’s comments were a disgrace,” Baron wrote to TheWrap, a media business outlet. “‘Things happen,’ he said. Actually, someone made them happen. And that was the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia. He had Jamal Khashoggi assassinated, and then he and his government lied about what happened.”

Trump couldn’t care less about the killing of a journalist unless he viewed that journalist as a supporter of his,” Baron continued. “In this instance, he suggests the killing was justified on the grounds that ‘a lot of people didn’t like’ Khashoggi. And then he ignores the facts of the brutal murder itself, suggesting MBS was clueless. Just when you think Trump has gone as low as possible, he goes still lower.”

Three weeks after Trump left office in 2021, US intelligence agencies concluded that the crown prince, known as MBS, “approved an operation in Istanbul, Turkey to capture or kill Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi” and noted “the Crown Prince’s support for using violent measures to silence dissidents abroad”.

• The US House overwhelmingly approved a bill demanding that the Justice Department release all files related to its investigation into the convicted sex offender, Jeffrey Epstein. The finally tally was 427-1, with five members not voting. The near-unanimous vote was the culmination of a months-long effort led by a bipartisan group of House members that initially faced deep opposition from the president and House leadership. But as it became clear the Speaker’s manoeuvring to prevent a vote on the petition would not succeed, Trump reversed course and threw his support behind the effort.

• The bill next moves to the Senate. If it is approved by the upper chamber, it would then go to Trump for his signature. After the House voted today, the Senate’s top Republican, John Thune told reporters that a vote on the bill would happen “fairly quickly”. Thune added that it’s “not likely” the legislation will have any further amendments. This, despite calls from House speaker Mike Johnson and several GOP lawmakers, to make changes to further protect victims’ identities. A reminder, provisions to redact names and child abuse materials are already part of the legislation. For his part, Donald Trump has signaled he would sign the bill if it reached his desk.

• A panel of federal judges has ruled that Texas cannot use the 2025 congressional map for the midterms. Instead, the state must use the 2021 boundaries in the upcoming election. The map, drawn by the GOP lawmakers in Texas at the behest of Donald Trump, was the catalyst of a nationwide redistricting battle. In response, California voters passed a ballot initiative to redraw their own maps, offsetting the five seats that Republicans gained in Texas in the process. In today’s ruling, the judges, which included a Trump appointee, said that the creation of a new map appeared unconstitutional and “racially gerrymandered”.

• Meanwhile, at the White House today, the president welcomed Saudi Arabia’s de facto leader, Mohammed bin Salman. It was the crown prince’s first visit to Washingtong since the 2018 killing of Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi by Saudi agents in Istanbul. In the Oval Office, Trump brushed off questions from a reporter about MBS’s role in Khashoggi’s killing, saying “things happen”. The president added that bin Salman “knew nothing about it, and we can leave it at that”. In 2021 US intelligence concluded that bin Salman had approved the capture or killing of Khashoggi, a fierce critic of the Saudi regime.

• When it came to matters of business, MBS announced Saudi Arabia was raising its planned investments in the US to almost $1tn, up from $600bn that the Saudis said they planned to invest when Trump visited the kingdom in May. Trump also confirmed that he had agreed to sell the Saudis F-35 fighter jets despite some concerns within the administration that the sale could lead to China gaining access to the US technology behind the advanced weapon system.

• The Department of Education (ED) announced today that it is outsourcing a number of its functions to different agencies, in a move that is part of the administration’s wider plans to totally dismantle the department. The ED said that through six new interagency agreements, with the Department of Labor, Department of the Interior, and Department of Health and Human Services, it would “break up the federal education bureaucracy” and “move closer to fulfilling the President’s promise to return education to the states”.

The Department of Education (ED) announced today that it is outsourcing a number of its functions to different agencies, in a move that is part of the administration’s wider plans to totally dismantle the department.

The ED said that through six new interagency agreements, with the Department of Labor, Department of the Interior, and Department of Health and Human Services, it would “break up the federal education bureaucracy” and “move closer to fulfilling the President’s promise to return education to the states”.

Trump ran on the promise that he would do away with the department responsible for the country’s education policy, and in March, he signed an executive order to dismantle the agency. Shuttering it outright requires congressional approval, but under the guise of education secretary, Linda McMahon, the scope of the department has diminished.

The House of Representatives just voted to rebuke retiring Democratic congressman Chuy García for what his detractors said was a scheme to ensure that his chief of staff would be the only Democrat left on the ballot next year in his heavily blue district.

The resolution, proposed by fellow Democrat Marie Gluesenkamp Perez, passed with almost all Republicans in favor, along with 23 Democrats. Three Democrats voted present.

Perez accused Garcia of “election subversion” for announcing that he would not seek re-election next year, while, as the Chicago Sun-Times reported, quietly collecting signatures for his chief of staff, Patty Garcia, to be on the ballot. The two Garcias are not related.

Democratic party leaders in the House had encouraged members to vote against the resolution, issuing a joint statement where they decried the “misguided resolution” and defending Chuy Garcia as “a good man who has always prioritized the people he represents, even while experiencing unthinkable family tragedy.” His wife is struggling with multiple sclerosis, and Garcia has said he is stepping down on the advice of his cardiologist. In 2023, his office announced the death of his daughter Rosa at the age of 28.

Fabiola Rodriguez-Ciampoli, a spokesperson for the congressman, said, “he followed every rule and every filing requirement laid out by the state of Illinois. At a moment like this, he hopes his colleagues, especially those who speak about family values, can show the same compassion and respect that any family would want during a health crisis.”

Others disagreed, with longtime Democratic strategist David Axelrod calling his actions “old-style, Chicago machine tactics to ensure his chief-of-staff would be the only name on the Dem ballot. It’s election denial of another kind!”

Democratic senator Andy Kim said: “Chuy Garcia’s decision to end his re-election at the last second and plant his chief of staff as the only candidate to succeed him was undemocratic and should not be allowed. Standing against corruption means standing up no matter which political party violates.”

John Thune, the majority leader and top Senate Republican, said that a vote on the full release of the Epstein files will happen “fairly quickly”.

Speaking to reporters on the Hill after the House voted, almost unanimously, for the justice department to release their complete trove of documents relating to the disgraced financier, Thune said that it’s “not likely” the legislation will have any further amendments. This, despite calls from House speaker Mike Johnson and several GOP lawmakers, to make changes to further protect victims’ identities.

A reminder, provisions to redact names and child abuse materials are already part of the legislation.

As we mentioned earlier, the sole holdout in today’s vote to release the justice department files on Jeffrey Epstein was Republican congressman Clay Higgins. He said that the bill, in its current form, doesn’t adequately protect victims, survivors, and “thousands of innocent people”.

The Louisiana lawmaker added:

If the Senate amends the bill to properly address privacy of victims and other Americans, who are named but not criminally implicated, then I will vote for that bill when it comes back to the House.

However, there are provisions in the legislation, as written, which redacts identities and examples of child abuse. If the upper chamber issues an amendment, the House will need to vote on the bill again. A move that the bipartisan co-sponsors say is a delay tactic and unnecessary.

In a statement after Tuesday’s vote, congressman Robert Garcia, the ranking Democrat on the House oversight committee demanded that the Senate majority leader John Thune take up the bill “immediately”.

“Donald Trump is panicking and trying to stop our investigation. We need to know what he’s hiding, and what powerful men are responsible for the rape and abuse of children and women,” Garcia said. “And let’s be clear – Donald Trump has the power to release the files today. But he chooses to delay and deflect.”

He added: “No more lies. No more secrets. We will get justice for the survivors. Release the files, NOW.”

The US House overwhelmingly approved a bill demanding that the Justice Department release all files related to its investigation into the convicted sex offender, Jeffrey Epstein. The finally tally was 427-1, with five members not voting.

Cheers rang out in the chamber, when the gavel banged the vote closed.

Congressman Clay Higgins of Louisiana, a staunch ally of Donald Trump, was the sole House member to vote against the measure.

The near-unanimous vote was the culmination of a months-long effort led by a bipartisan group of House members that initially faced deep opposition from the president and House leadership. But as it became clear the Speaker’s manoeuvring to prevent a vote on the petition would not succeed, Trump reversed course and threw his support behind the effort.

The bill next moves to the Senate. If it is approved by the upper chamber, it would then go to Trump for his signature. Trump told reporters on Monday he would sign the legislation if it reached his desk – still an if.

Democrats, as well as the bill’s bipartisan sponsors, have called on Trump not to wait for Congress to act and instead to order the Justice Department to release the files, which he has the power to do.

While the House votes, the Guardian’s congressional correspondent Chris Stein sends this dispatch from Capitol Hill.

As the House debates the bill to require release of the government’s investigative files related to alleged sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, survivors of his abuses clapped from the chamber’s gallery, prompting an admonition from the chair.

“I rise today to acknowledge the survivors, family members and advocates who are here today and have never given up the legislation in front of us, at its core is about something very simple: The survivors deserve justice. The American people deserve the truth,” said Democratic congresswoman Adelita Grijlava.

“Protecting women and children from pedophiles should not be a Democratic issue. Should not be a Republican issue. It should be a human rights issue and a matter of justice. I urge my colleagues to vote yes.”

The group broke into applause after Grijalva — who, after a lengthy delay, provided the final signature on a discharge petition that forced a vote on this bill — finished her remarks.

The Republican lawmaker presiding over the House then addressed the group, saying “the chair will remind all persons in the gallery that they are here as guests of the House, and that any manifestation of approval or disapproval of proceedings is in violation of the rules of the House.”

Jamie Raskin, the Democratic congressman managing the party’s debate, chimed in, saying: “I’ll just add, they’re here as honored guests of the House, and we’re delighted they’re here.”

Congressman Jamie Raskin, who has been leading the debate for Democrats on the House floor, issued a forceful rebuttal of the Speaker’s comments before the chamber moved to a vote.

“We want the whole truth to come out,” Raskin said, arguing that it was Johnson and Republicans who have been dragging their feet on releasing the files, including delaying the swearing in of Adelita Grijalva, who provided the 218th signature to advance the petition.

“Even the British Monarchy wouldn’t put up with this,” Raskin continued. “How about the American democracy? How about we say: ‘No way we’re not going to allow this cover up to go on for one day more.’”