Following a series of actions by Republican lawmakers and officials to deter efforts to release the files on Jeffrey Epstein, political strategists are warning that they will likely still have to face the pressures while on break.
House Speaker Mike Johnson shut down the House floor until September amid relentless calls to release the Epstein files and for Trump administration officials to testify about how they came to their conclusion in a memo released earlier this month declaring that the disgraced financier killed himself and had no client list.
