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US House and Senate vote overwhelmingly to make justice department release Epstein files
Summary
- The US House votes 427-1 to compel the justice department to release all of its Jeffrey Epstein files
- The Senate also says it will pass the the bill via unanimous consent before it heads to President Donald Trump's desk to be signed into law
- Earlier, survivors of Epstein spoke at a news conference at the US Capitol - Annie Farmer says they have suffered "institutional betrayal" for years
- Speaking alongside survivors, Republican congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene hits out at her former ally Trump and says the Epstein issue has "ripped Maga apart" (Trump's Make America Great Again movement)
- Donald Trump called for his own party to vote to release the files, after weeks spent claiming the vote was a distraction led by the Democratic Party
- It comes after more than 20,000 pages of documents, some mentioning Trump, were the latest tranche to be released last week
- Trump has previously said he cut ties with Epstein many years ago, and he has always denied any link to Epstein's sex abuse and trafficking
