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Senate Majority Leader John Thune said Wednesday that Speaker Mike Johnson has to figure out a way forward on the Jeffrey Epstein controversy that’s derailed House business until the fall.
“In some fashion, in some way, he’s going to have to handle it and deal with it,” Thune said during an interview from his Senate office. “And it sounds like, yeah, that’ll be a September [issue].”
Johnson chose to wrap up House votes early this week and send members home for the summer because of growing dysfunction fueled by the bipartisan push for more disclosure around Epstein, the deceased financier and former sex offender with ties to Trump and other prominent figures.
“He’s kind of handling it how I believe he thinks he needs to,” Thune said of Johnson. “He has a constituency out there that feels, in his caucus at least, that feels very strongly about it, and can make it difficult to get anything else done.”…..
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Scalise: House ‘will deal with’ Epstein issues after August recess if needed
Majority Leader Steve Scalise said Wednesday that House Republicans will address remaining issues around the Jeffrey Epstein case after lawmakers return from recess in September, if more information doesn’t come out first.
Scalise said in an interview that the House is waiting on the Trump administration to work on releasing Epstein-related grand jury information through the courts over the August recess.
“We’ll see what comes out of the courts, none of us can predict that,” Scalise said. “But when we return, we’ll deal with whatever’s left.”….