House Republicans and Democrats forced 20,000 Epstein pages into public view

Chairman JCJames Comer released 20,000+ pages from Epstein's estate on Nov. 13, 2025, including flight logs (2000-2014), financial ledgers, daily schedules, and correspondence. Flight manifests show Prince Andrew, Bill Gates, Walter Cronkite, Richard Branson, and Bill Clinton on Epstein's planes. Correspondence mentions Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, Steve Bannon, and Prince Andrew.

Rep. Adelita Grijalva (D-AZ) provided the 218th signature on the discharge petition Nov. 12, 2025, forcing a floor vote on H.R. 4405 (Epstein Files Transparency Act). Speaker Johnson had delayed her swearing-in for seven weeks after her special election win to prevent the petition from succeeding.

The discharge petition earned 218 signatures: 214 Democrats and 4 Republicans (Thomas Massie, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Lauren Boebert, Nancy Mace). The House voted 427-1 to pass H.R. 4405 on Nov. 18, 2025. The Senate passed it unanimously the same day. Trump signed it into law.

The law gave Attorney General Pamela Bondi 30 days (deadline: Dec. 19, 2025) to release all unclassified DOJ files on Epstein. Bondi's DOJ missed the deadline, released heavily redacted documents with faulty redactions, and revealed victim identities—violating the law's privacy protections.

DOJ's faulty redaction techniques let users recover blacked-out sections showing "significant findings as to members and techniques of Epstein's trafficking ring." Grand jury materials approved for release were "fully blacked out—not scattered redactions but 119 full pages," proving DOJ over-redacted beyond victim privacy.

Bondi announced DOJ discovered "over a million more" Epstein documents during review, extending the release timeline indefinitely. Congressional representatives threatened contempt charges, calling DOJ's partial release "an obstruction of justice."