5 Republicans Join Democrats To Subpoena Key Trump Official

Attorney General Pam Bondi is being subpoenaed by the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform over the Justice Department’s handling and release of the Epstein files, after a small bloc of Republicans broke ranks and sided with Democrats.

The committee voted 24-19 on Wednesday to issue the subpoena. The move was pushed by Rep. Nancy Mace, R-S.C., and backed by four other Republicans: Reps. Lauren Boebert of Colorado, Tim Burchett of Tennessee, Michael Cloud of Texas, and Scott Perry of Pennsylvania, according to CNN.

Democrats on the committee joined Mace and her allies to overcome opposition from the rest of the Republican conference on the panel.

Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., said before the vote that Bondi would provide private, small-group briefings for lawmakers. But members opted to force a formal appearance anyway, escalating the oversight fight over what has and has not been released in the Epstein document dump.

Mace framed the subpoena as a transparency issue and argued the public is still being kept in the dark.

“Bondi claims the DOJ has released all of the Epstein files. The record is clear: they have not,” Mace wrote on X.

“The Epstein case is one of the greatest cover-ups in American history. His global sex trafficking network is larger than what is being revealed,” she wrote.

“Three million documents have been released, and we still don’t have the full truth. Videos are missing. Audio is missing. Logs are missing. There are millions more documents out there,” she wrote.

“We want to know why the DOJ is more focused on shielding the powerful than delivering justice. The American people deserve answers, victims deserve justice. HOLD. THE. LINE,” Mace posted.

Democrats argued Bondi should testify directly before Oversight, not just speak in closed-door settings.

Democratic Rep. Robert Garcia of California said her appearance is appropriate, according to CBS News.

“The attorney general has gone to speak, obviously, to other committees,” he said.

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“I think it’s important that she is in front of our committee. She can directly answer questions about the release of the files, about transparency, about ensuring that victims and survivors are protected.”

Bondi has defended the department’s work and previously pointed to the volume already made public.

In an appearance last month before the House Judiciary Committee, Bondi said the Justice Department was complying with the Epstein Files Transparency Act.

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“More than 500 attorneys and reviewers spent thousands of hours painstakingly reviewing millions of pages to comply with Congress’s law. We’ve released more than 3 million pages, including 180,000 images, all to the public, while doing our very best in the time frame allotted by the legislation to protect victims,” Bondi said then, according to NBC News.

The subpoena vote comes as the committee widens its probe. On Tuesday, the panel announced it had invited several high-profile figures, including Microsoft founder Bill Gates, to sit for transcribed interviews related to Epstein.

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