"WASHINGTON President Donald Trump has signed a bill to compel the Justice Department to make public its case files on the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, a potentially far-reaching development in a yearslong push by survivors of Epstein's abuse for a public reckoning. Both the House and Senate passed the bill this week with overwhelming margins after Trump reversed course on his monthslong opposition to the bill and indicated he would sign it."
"The swift, bipartisan work in Congress this week was a response to the growing public demand that the Epstein files be released, especially as attention focuses on his connections to global leaders including Trump, former President Bill Clinton, Andrew Mountbatten Windsor, who has already been stripped of his royal title as Prince Andrew over the matter, and many others. There is plenty of public anticipation about what more the files could reveal."
""This bill is a command for the president to be fully transparent, to come fully clean, and to provide full honesty to the American people," Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer of New York said Wednesday. Schumer added that Democrats were ready to push back if they perceive that the president is doing anything but adhering to "full transparency.""
President Donald Trump signed a bill requiring the Justice Department to make public its case files on convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Both the House and Senate approved the measure with overwhelming margins after Trump reversed his prior opposition. The Justice Department now has a 30-day deadline to produce the files commonly known as the Epstein files. Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer framed the bill as a demand for full presidential transparency and warned Democrats will push back if transparency is not upheld. Bipartisan congressional action responded to public demand and attention to Epstein's connections to global leaders.
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