Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) definitively answered on Monday that the House will not hold a vote on the release of the Epstein files before lawmakers leave for summer recess by the end of the week. “My belief is we need the administration to have the space to do what it is doing.

Speaker Mike Johnson on Monday said he does not plan to allow votes on any measures related to the Jeffrey Epstein case in the House’s final week in Washington before a weekslong recess, despite intense pressure from some of his own GOP members to go on the record on the issue.