Senate Majority Leader John Thune said Wednesday that Speaker Mike Johnson has to figure out a way forward on the Jeffrey Epstein controversy that’s derailed House business until the fall.
“In some fashion, in some way, he’s going to have to handle it and deal with it,” Thune said during an interview from his Senate office. “And it sounds like, yeah, that’ll be a September [issue].”
Johnson chose to wrap up House votes early this week and send members home for the summer because of growing dysfunction fueled by the bipartisan push for more disclosure around Epstein, the deceased financier and former sex offender with ties to Trump and other…
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