when is the epstein files vote

The main congressional vote on the “Epstein Files Transparency Act” already happened on November 18, 2025, in the U.S. House of Representatives, and the bill passed 427–1. The Senate then approved it by unanimous consent the next day, and President Donald Trump signed it into law on November 19, 2025.

What the vote was

• The “Epstein Files Transparency Act” is the law that orders the Department of Justice to release federal records related to Jeffrey Epstein.

• The House vote took place just before 3 p.m. Eastern Time on November 18, 2025, and only one representative voted against it.

What the law requires

• The law gave the Attorney General 30 days from signing to release the “Epstein files,” which set a statutory release deadline of December 19, 2025.

• The Department of Justice began releasing documents but did not finish by that deadline and has said it still has millions of pages to review.

What is happening now (2026)

• As of early January 2026, only a fraction of the total Epstein-related documents has been released publicly, with more than two million documents still under review.

• Reps. Thomas Massie and Ro Khanna have asked a federal judge to appoint a special master to push the DOJ to fully comply with the law, since there is no built‑in penalty for missing the deadline.

Is there another “vote” coming?

• There is no widely reported date for a new congressional vote specifically on “the Epstein files” themselves; the key vote was the November 18, 2025 passage of the Transparency Act.

• Current action is happening in court and through oversight pressure on the DOJ, not through a scheduled new floor vote.

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