Lisa Phillips spoke at a press conference for Epstein survivors Wednesday—and said survivors have discussed creating their own list of their alleged abusers.Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call/ZUMA

There’s one issue that is gaining rare bipartisan support in a very divided DC: Outrage over the continued stonewalling of the full release of the Epstein files.

On Wednesday, a group of Democratic and Republican lawmakers—including Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.), Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.), and Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.)—held a press conference on Capitol Hill featuring survivors of the late financier and sex abuser Jeffrey Epstein. The purpose: Push Republicans to help force a vote on a House bill that Massie introduced in July, dubbed the “Epstein Files Transparency Act,” that would force Attorney General Pam Bondi to publicly release, within 30 days, all of the unclassified materials related to their investigations into Epstein and his accomplice, Ghislaine Maxwell. This would include flight logs, names of people and entities with ties to Epstein, sealed settlements, and any internal Department of Justice (DOJ) communications about declining to charge or investigate his associates. The bill would also prohibit the withholding of any files based on “embarrassment, reputational harm, or political sensitivity.”

President Donald Trump’s DOJ has repeatedly purported to release new batches of the files, including on Tuesday night, when the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee released more than 33,000 pages of documents that it secured through a subpoena from the DOJ. But Democrats and those present at the Wednesday press conference said those documents had already been made public through prior court cases.

At the news conference, Massie alleged the House Oversight Committee was “allowing the DOJ to curate all of the information that the DOJ is giving them” and said that 97 percent of the documents released were “already in the public domain.”

“This is a litmus test: Can we drain the swamp?” he asked. “Are there people who are outside of the reach of the law? I........

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