{"id":31320,"date":"2025-10-21T20:47:54","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T20:47:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/speaker-mike-johnson-says-he-wont-block-house-vote-to-release-epstein-files\/"},"modified":"2025-10-21T20:47:54","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T20:47:54","slug":"speaker-mike-johnson-says-he-wont-block-house-vote-to-release-epstein-files","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/speaker-mike-johnson-says-he-wont-block-house-vote-to-release-epstein-files\/","title":{"rendered":"Speaker Mike Johnson says he won\u2019t block House vote to release Epstein files"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Johnson\u2019s House has been in recess since shutdown, delaying petition to force vote on making documents public<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/live\/2025\/oct\/21\/donald-trump-republicans-white-house-ballroom-government-shutdown-troops-us-politics-live-news-updates\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">US politics live \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/republicans\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Republican<\/a> House speaker <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/mike-johnson\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mike Johnson<\/a> on Tuesday said he would not prevent a vote on legislation to make the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/jeffrey-epstein\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jeffrey Epstein<\/a> files public, even as the chamber remained out of session for a fourth straight week.<\/p>\n<p>Johnson has kept the House of Representatives in recess ever since the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/us-federal-government-shutdown-2025\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">shutdown<\/a> began at the start of the month, after Democrats and Republicans failed to reach an agreement on extending government funding beyond the end of September.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/oct\/21\/mike-johnson-epstein-files-house-vote\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Johnson\u2019s House has been in recess since shutdown, delaying petition to force vote on making documents public US politics live \u2013 latest updates Republican House speaker Mike Johnson on Tuesday said he would not prevent a vote on legislation to make the Jeffrey Epstein files public, even as the chamber remained out of session for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31321,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fast-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-10-25 11:19:29","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31320"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31320\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}