The US Senate has unanimously voted to force the release of the Epstein files.
The vote came just hours after the House of Representatives overwhelmingly backed the bill 427-1.
The unopposed victory in the Senate means the Bill, named the Epstein Files Transparency Act, will be sent directly to President Donald Trump to sign.
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said: “This is about giving the American people the transparency they’ve been crying for.
The unopposed victory in the Senate means the bill will be sent directly to President Donald Trump to sign
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"Jeffrey Epstein’s victims have waited long enough.”
Mr Trump has indicated that he would be signing the bill after urging Republican members of Congress to back the measure on Sunday.
Prior to the Senate vote, the President wrote on his Truth Social platform: "I don’t care when the Senate passes the House Bill, whether tonight, or at some other time in the near future, I just don’t want Republicans to take their eyes off all of the victories that we’ve had."
"The Great Big Beautiful Bill, closed borders, no men in women's sports or transgender for everyone, ending DEI, stopping Biden's record setting inflation, biggest tax and regulation cuts in history, stopping eight wars, rebuilding our military, being respected by every country in the world, having trillions of dollars invested in the USA."
He concluded: "Make America Great Again!"
Mr Trump has indicated that he would be signing the bill after urging Republicans to back the measure
| REUTERSThe Trump administration has faced intense pressure from its own Maga base and key figures within his movement to release the files.
Over the weekend, Mr Trump had a public fallout with former loyalist Marjorie Taylor Greene after the Congresswoman pushed his administration to release all Department of Justice (DoJ) files on the disgraced paedophile financier.
The President labelled Ms Greene a "traitor", "wacky", and a "ranting lunatic", before saying all she does is "complain, complain, complain".
The Republican congresswoman told CNN on Sunday that, while she still supports Mr Trump, she strongly disagrees with the White House’s failure to disclose all files relating to Epstein.
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Mr Trump had a public fallout with Maga loyalist Marjorie Taylor Greene over the files
| REUTERSRepublican representative Thomas Massie, who co-sponsored the bill, accused the DoJ of "protecting paedophiles and sex traffickers".
He told the House prior to the vote: "How will we know if this bill has been successful?
"We will know when there are men, rich men, in handcuffs, being perp-walked to the jail. And until then, this is still a cover-up."
The resolution from Mr Massie and Democrat representative Ro Khanna will force the DoJ to publicly disclose all records, communications, documents and investigative materials "in a searchable and downloadable format".
The department will be required to publish the material within 30 days of the legislation being signed into law.
The relationship between Mr Trump and Epstein has been the subject of intense scrutiny in recent months.
The President has repeatedly asserted that the pair fell out many years ago and that there is no evidence that he is guilty of any wrongdoing in relation to the disgraced financier.
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