"The congressman's bill directing the U.S. Department of Justice to disclose the records from its investigations of convicted child sex trafficker and rapist Jeffrey Epstein passed the House by a 427-1 vote on Tuesday. Hours later, the Senate passed it unanimously. On Wednesday, President Donald Trump signed Khanna's bill. Getting any legislation through both chambers and then signed by the president is hard enough when you're in the majority party."
"The president had been longtime friends with the now-deceased notorious child rapist; he figures prominently in many already-disclosed Epstein records; and he fought like hell to block a vote on Khanna's bill. In fact, the president's heavy-handed tactics to break up Khanna's unlikely yet pivotal alliance with right-wing Reps. Thomas Massie of Kentucky, Marjorie Taylor-Greene of Georgia, Nance Mace of South Carolina and Lauren Boebert of Colorado has exposed the most significant fracture yet in Trump's heretofore near-complete control over House and Senate Republicans."
Rep. Ro Khanna, a Democrat representing Fremont and parts of Silicon Valley, secured enactment of a bill directing the Department of Justice to disclose records from its investigations into Jeffrey Epstein. The House approved the measure 427-1 and the Senate passed it unanimously; President Donald Trump signed it into law. Trump, who had been longtime friends with Epstein and appears in many disclosed records, opposed the vote and sought to block it. Trump's efforts to break Khanna's alliance with right-wing Republicans exposed significant fractures within MAGA. Marjorie Taylor-Greene reported feeling threatened after Trump attacked her online. Khanna's initiative succeeded where others failed.
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