{"id":11633,"date":"2025-07-24T16:47:13","date_gmt":"2025-07-24T16:47:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/the-bill-is-going-to-come-due-house-gop-braces-for-epstein-crisis-to-intensify\/"},"modified":"2025-07-24T16:47:13","modified_gmt":"2025-07-24T16:47:13","slug":"the-bill-is-going-to-come-due-house-gop-braces-for-epstein-crisis-to-intensify","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/the-bill-is-going-to-come-due-house-gop-braces-for-epstein-crisis-to-intensify\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018The bill is going to come due\u2019: House GOP braces for Epstein crisis to intensify"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Internal fury over the House GOP\u2019s Jeffrey Epstein crisis is still swirling as President Trump faces an all-out revolt from his biggest supporters on Capitol Hill.<\/p>\n

The rebellion this week stunned White House officials and GOP leaders \u2014 and, according to Republicans involved in the talks, it\u2019s currently set to continue the moment they return from August recess. Even as members high-tailed out of town Wednesday, several Oversight Committee Republicans joined with Democrats to force a subpoena to the Department of Justice for its entire trove of Epstein documents \u2014 a major blow to Trump and GOP leaders.<\/p>\n

“People are going to move on this regardless,” said a Republican with direct knowledge of the internal talks this week. \u201cThe bill is going to come due.\u201d<\/p>\n

There\u2019s also intense frustration among rank and file members that Democrats successfully used the Epstein case to attack House Republicans, who struggled through the crisis this week.<\/p>\n

\u201cDemocrats smelled blood in the water,\u201d the Republican added. \u201cAnd they caught us flat-footed.\u201d<\/p>\n

And, White House officials know they have a problem.<\/p>\n

Trump did speak<\/a> to Rules Committee Republicans \u2014 who were at the center of the protest over Epstein this week \u2014 in the Oval Office Tuesday night. The president didn\u2019t specifically address the Epstein crisis or the chaos of the week. But several people in the room, however, were doubtful the crisis is going away.<\/p>\n

The Rules Committee will be back in the hot seat when lawmakers return in September. Kentucky GOP Rep. Thomas Massie\u2019s discharge petition to force a vote on his bipartisan Epstein bill will be back in the spotlight then \u2014 and could hit the House floor.<\/p>\n

For now, most Rules Committee Republicans are dead set on not helping Speaker Mike Johnson kill Massie\u2019s discharge petition in committee, to keep it from ever getting a floor vote, according to four people granted anonymity to describe private conversations.<\/p>\n

Johnson has tried to navigate the break between House Republicans demanding more Epstein-related information, and the president who just days ago was calling the Epstein files \u201ca hoax\u201d that only \u201cweaklings\u201d were still talking about. White House officials also fumed over<\/a> Johnson\u2019s comments on a podcast last week, when he called for more information to be released. He\u2019s since said there was \u201cno daylight\u201d between House Republicans and the president on wanting transparency.<\/p>\n

“It’s not a hoax. Of course not,” Johnson said in a clip of an interview with CBS News that aired Thursday.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Internal fury over the House GOP\u2019s Jeffrey Epstein crisis is still swirling as President Trump faces an all-out revolt from his biggest supporters on Capitol Hill. The rebellion this week stunned White House officials and GOP leaders \u2014 and, according to Republicans involved in the talks, it\u2019s currently set to continue the moment they return […]<\/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-11633","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\/11633","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=11633"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11633\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}