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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Rhian Lubin

The Epstein files deadline passed a month ago. Lawmakers show little interest to force Trump’s DOJ to release the rest

The Department of Justice is still withholding most of the long-awaited documents in the Jeffrey Epstein case, one month after the congressionally mandated deadline to release all of the files.

January 19 marks one month since the December 19 deadline in the Epstein Files Transparency Act passed and while Democratic Rep. Ro Khanna and Republican Rep. Thomas Massie — the pair of lawmakers who spearheaded the legislation — continue to pursue the documents, others appear to be growing weary of the saga.

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