Epstein Document Dump Complicates Massie’s Discharge Petition Drive

Even some of the House’s most fervent Republican advocates for transparency sounded reluctantly satisfied by Tuesday’s disclosure.

Thomas Massie
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After months of infighting and a five-week hiatus from Capitol Hill, Republican lawmakers returned to Washington bracing for a fight on the Jeffery Epstein controversy.

By the end of the day Tuesday, more Republicans seemed to be on the same page.

Several tempered their calls for greater transparency after the House Oversight Committee dropped thousands of pages of documents furnished by the Department of Justice, with even some of the loudest advocates for transparency calling the push for more documents “moot.”