{"id":141461,"date":"2025-11-18T16:42:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T16:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/141461\/"},"modified":"2025-11-18T16:42:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T16:42:09","slug":"epstein-files-latest-marjorie-taylor-greene-hits-back-at-trump-as-she-repeats-call-for-files-release","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/141461\/","title":{"rendered":"Epstein files latest: Marjorie Taylor Greene hits back at Trump as she repeats call for files release"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lawmakers are sending a strong message today – but there’s still a long road aheadpublished at 14:59 GMT<\/p>\n

14:59 GMT<\/p>\n

\"\"Cai Pigliucci
Reporting from Capitol Hill<\/p>\n

\"U.S.Image source, ReutersImage caption, <\/p>\n

Democratic Representative Ro Khanna hugs Republican Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene<\/p>\n

Many victims of Epstein have now spoken here, across from the steps of the Capitol. <\/p>\n

One pointed to the statue of a woman on top of the Capitol dome that represents freedom, while saying she does not feel free today. <\/p>\n

The victims have all said they think the release of the Epstein files should go beyond politics, and beyond partisan divides.<\/p>\n

The vote to release those files is expected in the House this afternoon. Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene said she thinks it will be unanimous. <\/p>\n

If that\u2019s true, it may be hard for the Senate to ignore such a strong message. Senate Republican leader John Thune has not committed yet to putting it to a vote.<\/p>\n

If he goes forward with that, it would need to pass by a two-third majority to be sent to President Trump\u2019s desk.<\/p>\n

He’s said he would sign it, but there is still a long road ahead until the public – and survivors – may see these files fully released. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lawmakers are sending a strong message today – but there’s still a long road aheadpublished at 14:59 GMT…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":105288,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[156,111,139,69,437],"class_list":{"0":"post-141461","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-new-zealand","10":"tag-newzealand","11":"tag-nz","12":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141461\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/105288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}