The GOP-led Rules Committee -- which was working on advancing a slate of unrelated bills -- came to a halt Monday evening because Democrats announced their plan to force a committee vote on bipartisan legislation that would call for the release of the Epstein files.

Speaker of the House Mike Johnson sent U.S. representatives home a day early as a debate over whether to release records from the federal investigation into convicted sex

The speaker had said he wanted full transparency, but now he’s shut down the House to spare Trump from such demands.