The House of Representatives may skip work this week just to avoid voting on whether to release records related to known pedophile and trafficker Jeffrey Epstein. This is the last scheduled week before a six-week summer recess—and Republicans are willing to throw it away to dodge this vote.
They have a stack of bills they want to pass, but Democrats tacked Epstein disclosure onto them—so now Republicans are frozen in place like there is a dinosaur in the room.
It’s Jurassic Park politics.
Democrats drop an Epstein amendment on the table, and suddenly every Republican turns to stone like:
“Don’t move. Maybe it won’t see us.”
So instead of letting the bills advance (on immigration, foreign aid, and more), House leadership hit pause on the entire Rules Committee—as if canceling the meeting will cancel the scandal.
Representative Thomas Massie says that the resolution that Democrats put onto the bills is “non-binding, so it’s kind of fake.”
But Republicans won’t even vote on that!?
Epstein not only manipulated our politicians and hurt young girls, he’s still disrupting American politics from the grave. Hasn’t this demon twisted our system enough? Full disclosure is the only way this goes away! It won’t go away just because you hide under your desks.
If we have to wait until after your break, we will. We’ve waited over a decade for these answers.
