President Donald Trump has helped Speaker Mike Johnson survive every political storm of his speakership. Now, Johnson is stuck in a crisis of Trump’s own making over Jeffrey Epstein — and there’s no clear way forward without risking the ire of the speaker’s most critical ally.

House Speaker Mike Johnson rebuffed pressure to act on the investigation into Jeffrey Epstein, instead sending members home early on Wednesday for a month-long break from Washington after the week’s legislative agenda was upended by Republican members who are clamoring for a vote.

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Mike Johnson said that he is shutting down House business early, accusing Democrats and others of playing political games with the "Epstein Files." The post Speaker Mike Johnson Shuts Down the House Early to Stop Epstein Files Vote first appeared on Mediaite.

Tim Miller, Host of The Bulwark Podcast and Mike Schmidt, New York Times Investigative Reporter join Nicolle Wallace on Deadline White House to discuss the continued fallout in the Trump world over the Epstein Files,

The White House has pushed back after reports that US President Donald Trump is among hundreds of names that appear in justice department documents relating to the late convicted paedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein.

The House speaker vowed to pursue “maximum transparency” in efforts to publish information on Epstein’s sex crimes, but criticized lawmakers trying to force Trump to release files on the disgraced financier.

US President Donald Trump praised congressional Republicans including House Speaker Mike Johnson as they gathered at a White House reception on July 22.

By now you’ve maybe seen the news that House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) is, effectively, shutting down the House’s

Given a choice between doing nothing and allowing members to vote on a bipartisan measure on Epstein transparency, the House speaker prefers to do nothing.