U-Turn on Capitol Hill: House Vote on the Epstein Files
Daily Story Brief by Jill & Joe
Episode notes
The political dam around the Epstein scandal has finally cracked—and this episode takes you right into the flood. As Congress races toward a House vote on the Epstein Files Transparency Act, the hosts unpack how a bill that was once dismissed as a fringe demand has turned into a full-blown political avalanche that neither party can control.
You’ll start on Capitol Hill, where an unlikely duo—libertarian Republican Thomas Massie and progressive Democrat Ro Khanna—have spearheaded a bipartisan push to force the Department of Justice to release its full, unclassified files on Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell. The episode walks through what the bill actually does: from demanding flight logs, detention records, and internal DOJ communications to requiring that everything be released in a se ...