House GOP leaders are racing to squash any internal rebellion over Jeffrey Epstein, launching a series of moves designed to appease the Republicans demanding more information be released on the late financier and convicted sex offender.

GOP leaders on Tuesday added a last-minute vote to this week’s calendar, providing rank-and-file Republicans with a formal outlet to register their support for congressional investigations into Epstein and his former girlfriend Ghislaine Maxwell, who is in prison for crimes related to the sexual abuse of minors.

Separately, Rep. James Comer (R-Ky.), the chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, held a lengthy, emotional closed-door meeting on Tuesday with bipartisan members of the panel and a handful of Epstein’s accusers, using Congress’s first day back in Washington to examine the thorny topic.

Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) joined that meeting for more than two hours — an extraordinary dedication of time from a busy Speaker designed to demonstrate that GOP leaders are serious about tackling an issue that’s pitting President Trump against leading figures in his own MAGA base.

And Tuesday evening, the House Oversight Committee made public the first batch of Epstein-related files it received from the Justice Department last month as the result of a subpoena.

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