The House on Wednesday broke for its weeks-long August recess, closing up shop one day earlier than planned as the chamber remained in a logjam over the Jeffrey Epstein controversy.

The lower chamber is not scheduled to reconvene until Sept. 2 — six weeks from now — when lawmakers will dive into the sprint to avoid a government shutdown by the Sept. 30 funding deadline.

House GOP leaders sent members home one day early — on Wednesday rather than Thursday — as the chamber was unable to move any legislation through the House Rules Committee amid a rebellion over the push to disclose the Epstein files.

Democrats on the panel had vowed to force another vote on their amendment to consider a bipartisan bill calling for the release of the Epstein files, but Republican committee members did not want to vote it down — as is customary for members of the majority to do to measures brought........

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