Khanna, Massie, Greene urge Senate to pass Epstein bill unchanged, warn of ‘reckoning’

Home legislators preparing to vote Tuesday on a costs that would require the Justice Department to launch all its files connecting to Jeffrey Epstein are pushing the Senate to pass the step with no modifications.

The legislation is pertaining to your home flooring Tuesday afternoon by means of a system called a discharge petition led by Rep. Ro Khanna, D-Calif., and Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky. A discharge petition permits a costs to get a House-wide vote versus leaders’ desires, supplied the petition gets assistance from the majority of legislators in the chamber. In this case, the petition recently made assistance from the majority of legislators in the chamber, consisting of from Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga.

” This has actually never ever been political. This is not about concerns of Trump or Biden. This is a concern of doing the best thing for survivors. We’re going to get a vote today. I anticipate a frustrating vote in your home of Representatives. And I do not desire the DC overload playing any video games,” Khanna stated Tuesday as he appeared at an interview together with Massie, Greene and a few of Epstein’s survivors.

” They require to pass this in the Senate, and they need to not change it. President Trump has actually stated he would sign the Epstein Openness Act. It’s going to get frustrating assistance in your home. It needs to go directly to the Senate, and it needs to be signed. No modifications, no including loopholes. Justice is long past due,” he included.

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Massie restated Khanna’s declarations.

” As Ro stated, do not filth it up in the Senate. Do not get too adorable,” Massie alerted the upper chamber. “We’re all taking note. If you wish to include some extra securities for these survivors, go all out. However if you do anything that avoids any disclosure, you are not for individuals, and you are not part of this effort. Do not filth it up in the Senate.”

GOP legislators who consulted with Fox News Digital Monday night stated they would elect the costs and were positive their associates would also– however a lot of them stated they still had issues about how it was composed.

It follows Home Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., who had actually protested the costs however pressed parallel openness efforts in Epstein’s case, stated he hoped it would go through material modifications when it reached the Senate to provide more security for innocent individuals whose names might appear in the files versus their desires.

” These ladies have actually combated the most dreadful battle that no female need to need to combat, and they did it by banding together and never ever quiting,” Greene stated Tuesday. “Which’s what we did by battling so hard versus the most effective individuals worldwide, even the President of the United States, in order to make this vote take place today.”

Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell were both arraigned on federal sex trafficking charges originating from Epstein’s years of abuse of minor ladies. ( Joe Schildhorn/Patrick McMullan by means of Getty Images)

” I was called a traitor by a male that I defended 5, no, really, 6 years for. And I provided him my commitment totally free. I won my very first election without his recommendation, beating 8 males in a main, and I have actually never ever owed him anything. However I defended him for the policies and for America First,” Greene stated, days after President Donald Trump pulled his recommendation of the Georgia Republican politician. “And he called me a traitor for standing with these ladies and declining to take my name off the discharge petition.”

” Let me inform you what a traitor is,” Greene included. “A traitor is an American that serves foreign nations and themselves. A patriot is an American that serves the United States of America and Americans, like the ladies guaranteeing me.”

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” And today, you are visiting most likely a consentaneous vote in your home to launch the Epstein files. However the battle, the genuine battle will take place after that. While I wish to see every name launched so that these ladies do not need to reside in worry and intimidation, which is something I have actually had a little taste of in simply the previous couple of days. Simply a little taste,” she included. “They’ve been living it for several years, however the genuine test will be will the Department of Justice launch the files, or will all of it stay bound in examinations?”

Khanna likewise called Tuesday the “very first day of genuine numeration for the Epstein class.”

” We’re here to stand with forgotten and deserted Americans versus an Epstein class that had no regard for the guidelines or the laws,” Khanna continued. “Due to the fact that survivors spoke out, since of their nerve, the reality is lastly going to come out. And when it comes out, this nation is truly going to have an ethical numeration.”

Sky Roberts, left, sibling of Virginia Giuffre, who was abused by Jeffrey Epstein, and his other half, Amanda Roberts, hold up a picture of Giuffre as they speak throughout a press conference outside the U.S. Capitol on Tuesday, Nov. 18, 2025. ( Heather Diehl/Getty Images)

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” How did we enable this to take place? There need to be no structures called after individuals in this Epstein class. There need to be no scholarships called after them. They should not be delighting in the advantages of being connected with corporations or universities, or composing op-eds or being lionized. And a lot of the survivors will inform you a few of these individuals still are commemorated in our society. That’s horrible. There requires to be responsibility,” he likewise stated.

Fox News Digital’s Elizabeth Elkind added to this report.