The U.S. House of Representatives on Tuesday took the significant step of ordering the Department of Justice under President Donald Trump to publicly disclose all its investigative files on the now-deceased convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, following months of intense internal clashes within the Republican Party. CNN reported that the House voted 427-1 to pass the measure, with Republican Representative Clay Higgins of Louisiana being the only member to vote against it. The initiative now moves to the Senate for review, where Republican leaders must quickly decide whether to send it to Trump's desk for ratification, Argentina's News Agency learned. The president has said he will sign the bill if Congress approves it, after months of dismissing the issue as a 'Democratic hoax.' On Monday, Donald Trump affirmed his support for a vote in the U.S. House of Representatives to publish more files related to the deceased sexual offender Jeffrey Epstein, despite having previously opposed the measure. 'House Republicans should vote to release the Epstein files because we have nothing to hide,' Trump wrote on his social media platform.
