Attorney General Pam Bondi is coming under criticism from congressional Republicans growing increasingly frustrated with her handling of the Jeffrey Epstein files scandal, which has badly divided the party and is now throwing work in the House off the rails.

GOP lawmakers joined MAGA World figures in blaming Bondi for earlier this year overhyping the release of the Epstein files, which raised expectations about what information the government had on the disgraced financier and pedophile.

The Department of Justice and FBI eventually released a memo that found the official cause of Epstein’s death was suicide and there was no “client list,” which Bondi at one point had said was on her desk.

The lack of more solid findings backing up theories about Epstein’s death and the client list have only made the furor in MAGA World grow hotter, despite efforts by President Trump to cool it.

“She’s probably a great attorney general, but she clearly has dropped the ball on that by saying 'the list is sitting on my desk' and then 'there isn’t a list,'” Rep. Tim Burchett (R-Tenn.) said.

Rep. Eric Burlison (R-Mo.), a supporter of more Epstein disclosures, sits on a House Oversight and Government Reform Committee task force charged with the disclosure of federal secrets.

He expressed frustration over Bondi’s move to convene influencers at the White House in May to claim there was more to the Epstein files.

“I wish she would communicate with the task force that I’m on, the disclosure task force,” Burlison said. “We're members of Congress. Instead of bringing us in the loop, she brings in social media influencers. That, to me, is something I wish she would do differently.”

Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) has sought to quell the outrage even as he has called for transparency, and Trump has insisted that Bondi’s standing is solid.

But there has been a clear split in MAGA World and in the GOP ranks between those loyal to Bondi and Deputy FBI Director Dan Bongino, who on Friday was rumored to be considering leaving his post over the Epstein ordeal. Bongino is back at work now, but

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