ANALYSIS: Everyone from progressives to centrists are throwing punches as Republicans flail, Eric Garcia writes

A key House committee is looking into the investigation of the late Jeffrey Epstein for sex trafficking crimes.

The political divide over documents related to the late Jeffrey Epstein grew in the Senate this week, when Democrats pushed for transparency while Republicans argued Congress has limited power to release the files.

Democrats are urging voters to hound Republicans over the Epstein scandal in a series of attack ads. The adverts about the late paedophile and his friendship with President Donald Trump will run in a dozen Republican-held House of Representatives districts over the August recess, Axios reported.

The House left a day early for a summer break that Sen. Chuck Schumer has dubbed "the Epstein recess" as Democrats try to capitalize on a major pain point for Republicans.

Rep. Celeste Maloy addressed misinformation on the Epstein files and clarified her stance on transparency while ensuring victim protection. She also debunked false claims about pesticide labeling in the Interior Appropriations Bill,

Working to exploit a G.O.P. rift, Democrats are aggressively pushing charges of a coverup in the case of the accused pedophile, which many of them once dismissed as a conspiracy theory.

Driving the news: Rep. Tom Suozzi (D-N.Y.), the co-chair of the bipartisan Problem Solvers Caucus, told Axios he is "not really focused" on Epstein. "I think the big focus is going to be on health care, because that's what people care about, and I don't think this issue is big outside the Beltway," he said.

“That’s 315, habibi,” El-Sayed said in a post on X that has been viewed more than 5 million times.

WASHINGTON — Attorney General Pam Bondi is facing Democratic calls to testify before Congress following a newspaper’s revelation that she told President Donald Trump that his name appeared in the files of the Jeffrey Epstein sex-trafficking investigation.