A group of Jeffrey Epstein's survivors delivered powerful testimony on Capitol Hill as lawmakers prepared to vote on a bill to force the release of the Department of Justice's files, and their words have turned a procedural House vote into a political crisis.
Survivors held a press conference at the US Capitol on 18 November 2025 to press lawmakers for transparency and to demand accountability, holding photographs of themselves as children and urging Congress to put victims ahead of politics. Bipartisan backers of the disclosure effort convened the event, which was attended by Reps Thomas Massie, R-Ky., and Ro Khanna, D-Calif., as well as other lawmakers, including Rep Marjorie Taylor Greene, as the House prepared to vote on the Epstein Files Transparency Act.
