From The New York Times:
Over the past two weeks, Democrats have effectively paralyzed the House floor by insisting at every turn on forcing votes Republicans do not want to cast on whether to insist on the release of files related to Mr. Epstein, the financier who died by suicide while in federal custody on sex-trafficking charges.
Faced with a choice between alienating MAGA constituents, who are clamoring for the release of the files, or angering President Trump, who has urged them to move on, Republicans in control of the House have decided to do neither. The dilemma prompted Speaker Mike Johnson on Tuesday to send lawmakers home early for the summer, even as several rank-and-file Republicans continued to urge a vote calling on the Trump administration to release the material. “The ghost of the disgraced Jeffrey Epstein is haunting our Republican colleagues,” Senator Chuck Schumer, Democrat of New York and the minority leader, said on the Senate floor on Wednesday.