{"id":19490,"date":"2026-03-01T22:21:23","date_gmt":"2026-03-01T22:21:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/democrats-say-they-have-the-votes-to-subpoena-lutnick-in-epstein-probe-2\/"},"modified":"2026-03-01T22:21:23","modified_gmt":"2026-03-01T22:21:23","slug":"democrats-say-they-have-the-votes-to-subpoena-lutnick-in-epstein-probe-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/democrats-say-they-have-the-votes-to-subpoena-lutnick-in-epstein-probe-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Democrats say they have the votes to subpoena Lutnick in Epstein probe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Democrats on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee have the votes to force Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick to testify before their panel about his relationship with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) told reporters Friday. &ldquo;I believe we will have the votes to subpoena him,&rdquo; Khanna said outside a performing arts center in Chappaqua&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2026\/02\/27\/congress\/dems-will-force-lutnick-subpoena-vote-00803881\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democrats on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee have the votes to force Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick to testify before their panel about his relationship with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) told reporters Friday. &ldquo;I believe we will have the votes to subpoena him,&rdquo; Khanna said outside a performing arts [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19490","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=19490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19490\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}