Charles Schumer, Chairman of the US Senate Mindfulness, speaks to Senator Richard Blumenthal during a press conference and asked for the publication of the Epstein files on July 30, 2025 in the US Capitol (photo of chip somodevilla/getty images)
Washington – The Republicans of the US Senate stopped a democratic change in the annual law on defense permits on Wednesday, which would have forced the government’s release from the government’s investigative acts on the deceased sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
In a procedural vote, the Senators voted 51-49 for the table of the change submitted by Chuck Schumer, chairman of the minority of the Senate, and effectively appreciated the chamber to take the measure into account. The Republicans Josh Hawley from Missouri and Rand Paul from Kentucky agreed with all the Democrats to advance the change.
Schumer’s step was the recent attempt by the Congress to force the Republicans to recover the announcement of the Trump government’s announcement in July not to publish any further materials from the case of sex trade against Epstein.
“If the Republicans agree no, they will tell the American people, they shouldn’t see the Epstein files,” said Schumer before the Senate vote. “I asked my Republican colleagues after after all the years in which they do not vote for transparency to put these terrible crimes to the bottom?”
The financier, who surrounded himself with powerful and influential personalities for years, was waiting for the process in 2019 in a prison cell in Manhattan. He and President Donald Trump had a well -documented social relationship that Trump says that he got furious before allegations against Epstein appeared.
A cross -party efforts in the US house to force the Ministry of Justice to release all investigative materials has not received enough Republican support to circumvent Mike Johnson’s spokesman for a Floor vote.
The discharge petition submitted by representatives Thomas Massie, a republican in Kentucky, and the California Democrat Ro Khanna, has the signatures of all Democrats and four Republicans, including the representatives of Lauren Boebert from Colorado, Marjorie Taylor Green from Georgia and Nancy Mace from South Carolina. The petition that a majority of house members need to force legislation to the ground is briefly two signatures.
Massie, Khanna and Greene stood in front of the US Capitol on September 3 In addition to women The abuse stories added by Epstein told.
The house committee for supervision and government reform conducted by GOP carries out its own investigation into the case of Epstein. On Tuesday Democrats of the Committee released A picture of a vigorous birthday greeting, which was allegedly created by Trump for the 50th birthday of Epstein.
Many legislators and members of the public, including some in Trump’s voter base, have been published by the publication of what they call Epstein files explained In a July memo that no further information would be published.
Trump fought for the publication of the files.
