Republicans Would Rather Shut Down Congress Than Discuss the Epstein Files

After programming hearings on legislative calendars and staging the Committee on Conspiracy Theories and Fantasy Persecution, the 119th Congress appears to be grinding up to stop over the threat of nominating documents concerning Jeffrey Epstein’s case. At the end of Monday, the Committee on the Rules of the House of Representatives collapsed in chaos when the Goopment leaders blocked a two -party resolution aimed at the Ministry of Justice and the FBI to publish a long debate, but stubbornly stationary “Epstein files”.

The oblivion arose because the resolution – the republicans thomas Mass from Kentuck and Democrat Ra Hannah from California – accurately urges Trump to provide the release of documents, while the competing measure of GoP expresses only the silent desire. “Their resolution of the Epstein bills does not connect, so it is some fake,” said a mass that faces Maga’s main problem about the vote refusal for Trump’s big bills. “The resolution I have with Hannah will be compulsory for the president.”

Masses and Khana sought to make their ruling voting on the petition – a measure that, when she wins support on the rules panel, to start voting on the floor with 218 signatures of the House of Representatives. The prospect of a protracted and possibly lost, the fight against the petition was sent by the Republican leadership of the House to paralysis.

In other words, the ghost is actually using your summons in a substantial way to make GoP leaders close works. This Thursday, the summer break was scheduled, but the crisis over the Epstein dispute closed the whole business before the Committee on the Rules – which means that the deepening starts effectively now, as the Committee sets the voting schedule. In the beginning of Monday Speaker Mike Johnson Johnson made the state of legislative collapse officialAnd he sent a house that was packed for a break before the schedule.

After the last Debral Epstein, the Republicans of the House of Representatives wave their hands in that it became a standard response to Epstein’s further requests. “Look, the Democrats shout and shout,” said the leader of the majority Steve scolis, despite how his conference turned into a cry and a cry into cell Mo. Then the clip went into “Hey, look there!” A regime referring to a symbol legal action last week from the Trump Ministry of Justice on the release of the EPStein’s Persecution in the Southern New York in the southern district of New York. “President Trump is now trying to get out of the documents in the courts, and I really think you will see, hopefully, and then we have some other options.”

But the testimony of a large jury, by definition, does not represent a deep investigation or a convincing legal sentence; After all, there is a reason that the prosecutor’s office has long been bragging that they could get grand jury to accuse the ham sandwich. Former Federal Prosecutor New York Sarah Crisaf said the Associated Press that any issued testimony covers only the ranking legal soil. “The practice of the South District of New York should put as little information as possible in a large jury,” she said. “They are basically a spoon to be charged with a big jury. That’s what we’ll see. I just think it won’t be so interesting.”

Home leaders rely on this Trump to reject the future disclosure of Epstein, only fueled the increasing suspicion and assumptions related to the slow walk of the Epstein materials-in particular, as a media officer for many years, calling for the complete translation of Epstein. And this is not a good look at the Epstein GoP Avoid Book to translate the house into a self -referred legislator at a time when the members click on the signature bill before the scheduled Thursday, including another measure to increase criminal punishments for unregistered immigration. If the Rules Committee, effectively recorded, the ward can vote only for extremely low-profile and unconventional legislation, for example, in anticipation of the bill on expanding postal indexes, which is also not registered as a reliable interaction with public business when members are nominated in the home districts.

Democrats are largely lucky in a well -found strategic position on the Epstein front due to growing cracks Within the conservative movement– Let this moment give a study moment for the opposition party, which is still desperate to restore political relevance. As Trump’s White House continues its lawless attack on basic freedoms and institutions, the Democrats mainly conducted the theatrical show of the seat in their hands. The last party in this unhappy despania took place last week when the Democrats at the House switched to the White House punitive kits on the federal budget, focusing on NPR, PBS financing and the fact that the final US agency for international development. As this measure approached by the end of the weekly cancellation period, the Democrats are imposed by the Democrats, instead, to surrender to the dry powder for another delayed future confrontation with the Trump’s White House. Upon Report in AxiosThe heads of the deputies of the House of Representatives advised members who forcing the House to violate the term “would not have such a murder effect, some believed.”

But you don’t need to go far back to Trump’s sorry in Congress to see how the Democrats are united in the same dubious and devastating reasoning: it was essentially the same case The Senate Minority leader Chuck Sumer did when he refused to use the expected budget period to obtain significant concessions from the Republican Conference. Then Sumer’s arguments were that the Democrats had to focus on major costs that the Trump’s White House was going to crash into the main expense account – and this strategy was billed as a bad failure. Democrats made the same emollient arguments to avoid the fight against the consistent resolutions of the impeachment developed by Sri Tonedar’s representative from Michigan and Al -Grin of Texas; The real struggle was elsewhere, they insisted, and they needed their husband’s resources in the minority to make their votes count when it really matters.

However, Epstein Thrakas makes it clear that the method of effective power in Congress is to force confrontation, especially if they are the basis of the ruling party. The same logic that unintentions helped the Democrats to disarmed in the delicate coalition of the magic, could be used on many other fronts. In addition to the horrible show of the Democrats according to the main budget measures, they also emerged on demagogical legislation, as the Laken Riley Lake, which introduced the regime of severe immigration, which appears to be massively unpopularAs well as on bribery and deregulation, spread on crystals under crypto-searches farically called genius act. One can only pray that the procedural muscles they flexed over Epstein resolutions resist the following budget.