{"id":11432,"date":"2025-07-18T01:47:55","date_gmt":"2025-07-18T01:47:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/republicans-plot-endgame-on-rescissions-package-and-epstein-files\/"},"modified":"2025-07-18T01:47:55","modified_gmt":"2025-07-18T01:47:55","slug":"republicans-plot-endgame-on-rescissions-package-and-epstein-files","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/republicans-plot-endgame-on-rescissions-package-and-epstein-files\/","title":{"rendered":"Republicans plot endgame on rescissions package \u2014 and Epstein files"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>House Republicans on the Rules Committee voted down a Democratic amendment Thursday night to advance a bipartisan bill calling for the release of documents related to the Jeffrey Epstein case, and instead unveiled their own non-binding resolution on the matter that won&#8217;t receive an immediate floor vote.<\/p>\n<p>The House GOP conference is under rising pressure from constituents to provide more transparency around the Epstein matter. Republicans devised this measure as a way to respond to this pressure, as well as Democratic attacks over the Epstein case \u2014 while also breaking an impasse over advancing Trump&#8217;s $9 billion rescissions package before a Friday deadline.<\/p>\n<p>Republicans on the Rules Committee plan to report out two rules Thursday night. The first will advance the rescissions package and, once it&#8217;s approved on the House floor, it will effectively clear the package for final passage without requiring a second vote.<\/p>\n<p>The second rule will include <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2025\/07\/17\/congress\/rules-epstein-resolution-johnson-00460944\" target=\"_blank\">the non-binding resolution<\/a> calling for the release of documents related to Epstein, the late-disgraced financier and convicted sex offender, which Republicans say protects victim privacy since it would not compel the immediate unsealing of the materials. That second rule will not get a vote on the House floor Thursday night.<\/p>\n<p>As the Rules Committee was meeting, Trump posted on Truth Social that he has asked Attorney General Pam Bondi &#8220;to produce any and all pertinent Grand Jury testimony, subject to Court approval.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Democrats continue to press for a vote on the bipartisan resolution from Reps. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) and Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) that would make the materials public.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>House Republicans on the Rules Committee voted down a Democratic amendment Thursday night to advance a bipartisan bill calling for the release of documents related to the Jeffrey Epstein case, and instead unveiled their own non-binding resolution on the matter that won&#8217;t receive an immediate floor vote. The House GOP conference is under rising pressure [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11432\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}