Pam Bondi Subpoenaed By GOP-Led House Oversight Committee

Attorney General Pam Bondi received a subpoena on Wednesday after the Republican-led House Oversight Committee voted to call her in to testify about the release of the Jeffrey Epstein files, which recent reports reveal are missing pages pertaining to President Donald Trump.

MS NOW anchor Katy Tur interrupted her segment to report the news, “Breaking news on Capitol Hill, where the House Oversight Committee just voted to subpoena Attorney General Pam Bondi. Joining us, MS NOW congressional reporter Mychael Schnell. This is a bit of a surprise.”

“Yeah, Katy, a massive surprise here. Look, earlier in the day, during a hearing of the House Oversight Committee, Congressman Nancy Mace had moved to have a vote on a subpoena for Attorney General Pam Bondi. I’ll note this hearing was about an unrelated topic. Well, that vote was delayed until the end of the hearing, and it just happened a few minutes ago, and they voted 24-19 to subpoena Attorney General Pam Bondi,” Schnell replied, adding:

Something that’s so striking about this is it was a bipartisan vote and it wasn’t even close. There were actually five Republicans who voted in favor of the subpoena: Nancy Mace, Lauren Boebert, Scott Perry, Tim Burchett, and Michael Cloud. Again, 24 to 19, which means that in the near future we could see Attorney General Pam Bondi testify once again in front of the House Oversight Committee about the Epstein files.

That’s why Nancy Mace had wanted to subpoena Attorney General Pam Bondi to talk about her handling of the files. We’ve heard from members on both sides of the aisle that they’re unhappy that not all the files have been released, about the redactions that have been made, blacking out the names of some of the powerful and wealthy individuals who were in the files and leaving information about victims out in the open and to the public. Lawmakers are going to once again have an ability to question Attorney General Pam Bondi. It’ll likely be behind closed doors. That’s how this has worked. But still a very, very notable development today as we keep digging into these Epstein files.

“Yeah, a surprise because, again, in order to get a subpoena out of that committee, it’s got to be bipartisan. And you said five Republicans voted alongside the Democrats to subpoena her. I know there’s a lot of anger and frustration about not releasing all of the files. Wall Street Journal reporting today, almost 50,000 files have been withheld. Michael, thank you so much. That’s going to do it for me today. Deadline White House starts after a quick break,” concluded Tur.

This is a developing story and has been updated.

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