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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
John Bowden

Republicans dodged a bullet on shutdown and Trump bailed them out on Epstein - but this next crisis is a real doozy

Donald Trump finally saw the resolution compelling the release of the Jeffrey Epstein investigation files hit his desk on Wednesday after his party took a bruising over it in the House of Representatives throughout October and well into November.

With Republicans also having been granted a reprieve on a shutdown that polls say was costing their party valuable political capital and driving down Republicans’ favorability ratings, one might almost think that the GOP was out of the weeds.

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