Dems have already gone against the release
Literally zero Democrats in power are against the release of the Epstein files.
In the Senate on September 10, Schumer (D) introduced an amendment to the NDAA force the release of the Epstein files. Every Republican voted to table that amendment. Every Democrat to keep it to release the Epstein files.
In the House on September 2, Thomas Massie (R) introduced a petition to vote to release the Epstein files. Every Democrat in the house has signed that petition. All but four Republicans have refused to do so. The petition needed one more signature, which newly elected Adelita Grijalva (D) would have given, but Mike Johnson (R) refused to swear her in for 7 weeks during the shutdown (not an excuse, since Congress continues to get paid to work during a shutdown). She has now been sworn in and has signed the petition.
Donald Trump (R) has reportedly asked Lauren Boebert (R) and Nancy Mace (R) to wiithdraw their signatures from the petition.
Not sure where you're getting your "Dems have already gone against the release" narrative, but the truth seems to be exactly the opposite of that.
This is pretty easy to verify. https://youtu.be/1ONAkNUHbBU?t=96
What are we supposed to be looking at here? This is comedian Walter Masterson, who goes to MAGA rallies dressed to fit in and poke fun at people.
Only Massie, Mace, Boebert, and Greene pledged to sign on along with all of the Democrats.
Johnson is currently holding up the passing by delaying the swearing in of the last democrat needed to have a majority.
So, most of them.
On September 10, the Senate voted to table an amendment to the 2026 National Defense Authorization Act that would have forced releasing the files.
This is about a House discharge petition that would force a vote, and is currently waiting on the swearing in of a newly-elected rep from Arizona, which is currently being stalled.
Is it just me or does something seem fishy here. What 22 year-old says these things in a text conversation?
"my vehicle"
"delete this exchange"
Takes this moment to finally tell his live-in lover that his dad is "diehard maga" since Trump took office.
Asks if he remembers him engraving bullets and that they are a big meme, as if that wouldn't have come up while he was engraving the bullets in front of his roommate/lover.
I guess maybe it's real, but if not, the prosecution could be fucking this up real bad.
I'm not sure what all is left that can be released.
One single person is in prison and/or implicated based on what has been released so far.
Saying nothing else can be released is like saying I guess it was just Jeffrey and Ghislaine after all.
Republicans are currently the only ones in both the House and Senate that are voting against the release of the files every chance they are given.
This wasn't going to "mess up the defense spending authorization" because that is going to pass. The question here is do we get defense authorization and the release of the Epstein files or do we get defense authorization and not the release of the Epstein files.
Did they? Most major media sites don't actually link to the bill.
It's THE annual defense authorization bill. It pays for and allows the military to operate for the next year. It has to and will pass.
https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/senate-bill/2296
This is the text of the amendment. It just says to release the Epstein files.
https://www.congress.gov/amendment/119th-congress/senate-amendment/3849/text?s=2&r=16
All but two republicans voted against it.
And let's see if the Democrats have the balls on them to submit the so called Epstein bill on its own...
Looks like they will get a shot at this soon with the House discharge bill that currently needs one more signature to outnumber the all but four republicans against it.
Meanwhile, a separate effort to force a vote on a similar bill in the House inched ahead.
Democrats picked up one more House seat when Rep. James Walkinshaw, D-Va., was sworn into office after winning a special election this week. It gives them one more supporter for a procedure — called a discharge petition — to maneuver around Republican leadership's control of the House floor and hold a vote on legislation to force the Justice Department to release the Epstein files.
Four Republicans have also signed onto the discharge petition, meaning that it is just one name short of having the support needed to potentially force a vote. That could come as soon as the end of this month when a heavily blue congressional district in Arizona holds a special election to fill a vacant seat.
What do you mean by "bad defense budget"?
It's literally THE 2026 defense budget bill that has to pass. The amendment only added a demand to release the Epstein files.
https://www.congress.gov/amendment/119th-congress/senate-amendment/3849/text?s=2&r=16
How is anyone against this?
WE, THE PEOPLE, DEMAND...
Then this should be introduced as an amendment to every bill until we get the files.
If a bill doesn't pass or is vetoed because of this, we will see who is protecting the pedos.
This isn't pork-barreling and the wedge seems to be with republicans who don't want to see the files.
Where's the time-bomb? It's an annual spending bill that needs to pass one way or another. Schumer's Epstein amendment to it just says "release the files!"
Are you suggesting the democrats would vote against the spending bill because of their own amendment (that they all voted for), making them be the ones that look like pedo protectors in the end?
It would be pretty easy to prove that with evidence, no?
Release the files. Replace the pedophiles.
It's not that difficult. Society isn't going to collapse because a bunch of elites lose their jobs or go to jail.