During Mr. Trump's first term, his labor secretary, Alexander Acosta, resigned following criticism of his handling of Epstein's 2008 plea deal when he was a federal prosecutor in Florida. Epstein served 13 months in a jail work-release program after he was originally accused of sexually abusing dozens of girls and young women.

One of President Trump’s closest Congressional allies said Monday he wants the full release of files related to disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein while praising the administration’s transparency. “For me,

Speaker Mike Johnson of Shreveport recessed the House a day early as the debate over the sex offender Jeffrey Epsein's case escalated.

The case of Jeffrey Epstein, sex offender and former friend of the president, has blown up into a major headache for the White House.

Ghislaine Maxwell’s lawyer, David Oscar Markus, said Maxwell is undecided on whether to testify before Congress regarding her connection to Jeffrey Epstein and his circle.

Activists demanding answers in the Jeffrey Epstein case must continue to pressure Congress and the executive branch to act to protect children.

Last week, Johnson wouldn’t commit to holding a vote on another nonbinding Republican resolution that urges the Justice Department to release certain Epstein files, either. Inst

Several GOP senators spoke out Thursday, a day after the Wall Street Journal reported Attorney General Pam Bondi and her deputy Todd Blanche informed Trump in May that his name appeared multiple times in the Epstein files that the Department of Justice and the FBI reviewed.