On Wednesday, the House sent the legislation it passed almost unanimously to release files related to Jeffrey Epstein to the Senate.
But the upper chamber did not even need to vote on it thanks to Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer requesting unanimous consent the night before so that it would be considered passed the moment it hit the Senate.
It now goes to President Donald Trump's desk and waits for his signature. He famously flipped from calling the whole affair a "Democrat hoax" to ultimately relenting and saying he wanted Congress to pass it.
What the president's next move could be is anyone's guess. It's why Haley Robson, an Epstein survivor, told Inside Washington, "He said it, that he would sign it, so let's see what Daddy does."
Robson and the rest of the Epstein survivors boxed Trump into a corner and in the end, he had no choice but to support the legislation. Some of his most devoted acolytes, from the "manosphere" podcast bros who had bolstered his candidacy last year to hardline conservatives, began to turn on him.
Trump's behavior also disgusted voters. A new Marquette University Law School poll showed that 74 percent of Americans disapproved of how Trump handled the Epstein affair.
Even more brutally, 57 percent of Republicans disapprove of the way Trump has managed it.
That might be why his former ally Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene did not fear Trump's wrath on the subject. Furthermore, 73 percent of men disapproved of Trump's handling of files related to the late convicted sex offender and 74 percent of women disapproved.
"I beat the President, the vice president, the attorney general, the FBI director and the speaker of the House," Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.), who spearheaded the legislation, told Inside Washington after the vote on Tuesday evening.
The poll also found that 49 percent of voters would expect to vote for a Democrat in the 2026 midterm election compared to 44 percent who expect to vote for a Republican in the midterm.
And that turned out to be a conservative number. Another poll conducted by Marist College, NPR and PBS found that Democrats hold a hefty 14-point lead over Republicans among registered voters asked who they would vote for in generic 2026 midterm matchups, a new poll finds.
For the longest time, Democrats resented that Trump remained "Teflon Don." But the past month has shown that the rules of gravity apply to the president. Particularly, the Epstein story has proven radioactive.
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