Trump Signs Epstein Files Bill After 427-1 House Vote and Unanimous Senate

President Trump said Wednesday that he signed a bill requiring the Justice Department to release its files on Jeffrey Epstein within 30 days, ending months of controversy after Congress passed it by nearly unanimous margins this week, CBS News reported.

“Perhaps the truth about these Democrats, and their associations with Jeffrey Epstein, will soon be revealed, because I HAVE JUST SIGNED THE BILL TO RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES!” Mr. Trump wrote on Truth Social, according to CBS News.

The House passed the measure 427 to 1 on Tuesday, CBS News and CNBC reported, and the Senate approved it the same evening by unanimous consent, CNBC reported; CBS said it moved through the Senate unanimously. CNBC said Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, a New York Democrat, moved to consider the bill passed without debate and no senator objected.

The legislation was brought by Reps. Thomas Massie, a Kentucky Republican, and Ro Khanna, a California Democrat, whose discharge petition forced the vote, according to CNBC and CBS News. Mr. Trump had reversed course on Sunday night, writing on Truth Social that House Republicans “should vote to release the Epstein files, because we have nothing to hide,” as NBC News, CNBC and NPR reported at the time. Reps. Nancy Mace of South Carolina, Lauren Boebert of Colorado and Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia had backed the petition, NBC News and CNBC reported.

The Epstein Files Transparency Act requires Attorney General Pam Bondi to make public all of the Justice Department’s and the FBI’s unclassified records, communications and investigative materials related to Epstein and his co-conspirator Ghislaine Maxwell, CBS News reported. It is not clear what new documents will emerge, the network noted, as tens of thousands of pages have already been released by lawmakers in recent months, including files from the government and from Epstein’s estate.

Mr. Trump has continued to describe the matter as a political ploy against him. CNBC reported that on Tuesday he told a reporter the Epstein matter “is a Democrat hoax to try and get me not to be able to talk about” his administration’s accomplishments. His Wednesday post pointed instead at Democrats with ties to Epstein, CBS News reported.