WASHINGTON (AP) – In a close vote, the Republicans of the Senate defeated the Democrats on Wednesday to include the language in the annual Defense Department of Congress, which would have been forced to the public release of cases of cases to investigate sex trafficking in the late Jeffrey Ibstein.
The Senate voted 51-49 to reject changes on the bill, with Republican Josh Holie from Missouri and Rand Paul from Kentucky to all Democrats in the opposition.
For months, Democrats photographed what is known as Epstein’s files, looking for every opportunity to make Republicans to join them to pushing them to disclose or publicly opposing the issue of many in the Republican base. President Donald Trump, running for the presidency, indicated that he was open to issuing a complete accountability of the case, but he is now trying to reject the batch “a democratic trick.”
Until now, Democrats have succeeded in forcing the Republican leadership on the match with this issue, however, it was not clear whether they would have already been able to break Trump’s grip on Congress Republicans to impose legislation through Congress.
“I ask my Republican colleagues, after all those years I spent in contact with the sake of transparency, to reach the bottom of these terrible crimes, why not vote yes?” Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer said in a speech on Wednesday.
New York Democratic Democratic Mandor later on Wednesday to compel the procedural vote on the language that would force the Ministry of Justice to release Epstein’s files, and include them in a draft law on the annual defense policy that Congress must transfer. After that, the Republican leadership in the Senate was forced to vote to dispense with the Shomer amendment, on the pretext that he was saying political games in defense legislation often enjoying party support.
“This is not the right way to do this,” said Senator Mike Roses, a Republican in South Dakota.
The majority leader of the Senate John Thun said earlier this week that the Ministry of Justice “has already issued a lot of files” to Epstein.
Thnee added, RS.D. “I trust them regarding confidence that they will get the most information possible as possible in a way that protects the rights of victims.”
However, many at the Republican base – as well as some victims of abuse of Epstein – were not satisfied with what the Ministry of Justice has so far issued.
The calls for the disclosure of the Ibstein case consumed the moments of Congress, as they waved on the horizon on politics more than when Epstein killed himself in Manhattan prison while waiting for the trial in 2019 on charges that he was sexually assaulted by dozens of underage girls and inflammation. The case was brought to more than a decade after a deal secretly concluded with Federal Persons in Florida to get rid of almost identical allegations. Epstein was accused of paying girls under the legal age hundreds of dollars in cash in exchange for massage and then harassing them.
In response to a question from the journalists on Wednesday about the reason why the Democrats did not disclose when they control the White House, Schumer replied, “It has become clear that they are lying about it in every different way and the demands of the American people are very large.”
“The need is greater than ever.”
Meanwhile, a separate effort to compel vote on a similar bill in the House of Representatives forward.
Democrats got another seat at home when MP James and Lukensu, D-FA, swore the constitutional oath after winning special elections this week. It gives them another supporter for a procedure – called the discharge petition – to maneuver on the control of the Republican leadership in the House of Representatives Hall and vote on legislation to force the Ministry of Justice to release Epstein files.
Four Republicans also signed the discharge petition, which means it is just one name less than the support needed to force the vote. This can come as soon as the end of this month when the extreme blue Congress area in Arizona provides special elections to fill a vacant seat.