The leader of the US Senate Minority Charles Schumer speaks during a press conference with the US Senator Richard Blumementhal, demanding the release of Epstein files in the US Capitol on July 30, 2025 (photo chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
Washington – Republicans of the US Senate on Wednesday, they detained a democratic amendment to the annual defense authorization act, which would force government investigators about the deceased sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
In procedural voting, the senators voted 51–49 to stand in the amendment note submitted by the leader of the minority of the Senate Chuck Schumer, effectively stopping the chamber from considering the means. Republicans Josh Hawley from Missouri and Rand Paul from Kentucky voted with all democrats to develop amendment.
The transfer of Schumer was the latest attempt to extort the Republicans for recording on the announcement of the Trump administration in July that he would not publish any further materials from the federal sexual trade matter against Epstein.
“If the Republicans vote” no “, they will tell the American nation, you should not see the act of Epstein,” said Schumer on the Senate floor before voting. “I asked my republican colleagues, after so many years you spent calling responsibility, transparency, for reaching the heart of these terrible crimes:” Why don’t you vote like this? “
A financier, who had surrounded himself with powerful and influential characters for years, died in anticipation of the trial in the prison cell in Manhattan in 2019. He and President Donald Trump had a well -documented social relationship, which according to Trump became sour before the allegations against Epstein appeared.
Double -sided efforts in an American home aimed at forcing the Department of Justice to release all investigative materials did not gain sufficient republican support to bypass the speaker of Mike Johnson’s house, a Republican from Louisiana, in floor voting.
A sophisticated petition submitted by representatives of Thomas Massie, Kentucky Republican and Democrat California Ro Khanna has signatures of all Democrats and four Republicans, including representatives. Lauren Boebert from Colorado, Marjorie Taylor Greene from Georgia and Nancy Mace from South Carolina. The petition, which requires most members of the Chamber to sign the signing of the provisions to the floor, is a compact two signatures.
Massie, Khanna and Greene stood before the US Capitol on September 3 Next to women who shared stories about abuse inflicted by Epstein.
The Government Supervision and Reform Committee run by GOP leads its own probe to the Epstein case. The Democrats Committee on Tuesday released A picture of a sullied birthday greeting allegedly created by Trump for Epstein’s 50th birthday.
Many legislators and members of society, including some in the Trump voters database, were zone in the edition of what they call the files of the Epstein since the FBI decided More information will not be published in the July note.
Trump conducted a campaign on release of files.
