Schumer Adds Epstein Files Amendment to Defense Bill

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., moved to force a Senate vote on the Epstein files with an amendment he introduced to the National Defense Authorization Act.

Schumer’s amendment would force the Department of Justice to release all the files related to Jeffrey Epstein, the convicted sex offender who died in 2019, within 30 days.

“Republicans will have to vote on it. We’re going to keep fighting until these files are released,” Schumer said in a video post to X.

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