House Committee Defies Trump — Votes To Demand All Epstein Docs In Overwhelming Vote

The House Oversight Committee’s federal law enforcement subcommittee voted overwhelmingly to subpoena all documents related to the Jeffrey Epstein case, defying President Donald Trump.

The Trump administration’s attempt to bury the so-called “Epstein Files” is now in its third week, and the heat just keeps going up. After a surreal press briefing at which Trump Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard rolled out a new distraction, that effort took another massive hit.

By an 8-2 margin, the subcommittee approved a subpoena for all Department of Justice records related to Epstein.

On Wednesday night’s edition of CNN’s OutFront, anchor Erin Burnett asked congressional correspondent Manu Raju to break down the move:

ERIN BURNETT: Straight to Manu Raju, who’s on Capitol Hill tonight, who has been breaking so much of this news tonight.

And Manu, this move coming from the subcommittee, Republicans there voting to have this subpoena, it’s hugely significant. It is a defiance of the president.

MANU RAJU: Yeah, and it’s been a huge distraction for Republican leaders as the House is now limping to recess, going on break until after September, after we’ve seen the agenda completely paralyzed this week because Democrats have exploited these Republican divisions, have pushed for votes on the Epstein matter, and Republicans who do want the release of this information siding with Democrats and the leadership trying to block that from going forward, which is why the House floor has been essentially shut down for the last several days.

And now we are seeing that happen in the committee level as well. Today, the House subcommittee voting to subpoena all Epstein records. That came after Democrats forced the issue.

Three Republicans then joined on that as well, and I talked to a number of Republicans who made clear to me that they believe that even though the House is going home for the August recess, that this matter will only continue to build and pressure will intensify to release all the records.

Watch above via CNN’s OutFront.