Both houses of the U.S. Congress have approved the mandatory release of documents related to the Epstein case.

According to Jincai Finance, on the 18th local time, the U.S. Senate approved a bill to force the public release of documents related to the Epstein case. Earlier that day, the U.S. House of Representatives voted and passed a request for the U.S. Department of Justice to release all documents pertaining to the Epstein case. U.S. President Trump had previously expressed support for the release of Epstein case documents. Since the U.S. House of Representatives reconvened on the 12th of this month, Democrats and Republicans have taken turns publicly releasing parts of the Epstein case documents, accusing each other's high-level figures of having connections to Epstein and even involvement in his sexual crimes, including Trump, former Democratic President Clinton, former Secretary of the Treasury Larry Summers, and former White House Counsel Kathryn Ruemmler, among others who served in the Democratic government.