“Donald Trump has tried to cover up for Jeffrey Epstein long enough,” Schumer said on the Senate floor before asking to pass the bill.
“It’s time that the Senate finished the job to finally compel the Department of Justice to release the Epstein files.”.
The move was so swift that the Senate hadn’t even formally received the bill from the House.
The sudden move to pass the bill in the Senate caps off a chaotic legislative process where Republicans spent months trying to deny Democrats a vote on the bill.
The quick passage — without amendments — is sure to anger Johnson and many House Republicans.
Following the near-unanimous House vote, Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., signaled that his chamber might move quickly, without changing the bill.
The Epstein files have already proven to be one of the few issues that normally devoted Republicans will break from the president on. »
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