The powerful GOP-led House Oversight Committee voted Wednesday to subpoena Attorney General Pam Bondi for testimony about the case of late sex predator Jeffrey Epstein.
Five Republicans — Lauren Boebert of Colorado, Tim Burchett of Tennessee, Michael Cloud of Texas, Nancy Mace of South Carolina, and Scott Perry of Pennsylvania — joined 19 Democrats on the panel to back the subpoena motion put forward by Mace.
“The American people want answers on the Epstein files, and so do we,” Mace wrote on X after the vote.
The Justice Department had no immediate comment on the subpoena.
Bondi has been repeatedly and sharply criticized for her handling of federal records surrounding the case of Epstein, who was found dead in his Manhattan jail cell on Aug. 10, 2019, while awaiting trial on sex trafficking and other charges.
The AG initially stepped in it on Feb. 21, 2025, during an interview with Fox News Channel. When asked whether a purported list of Epstein’s “clients” would be made public, Bondi answered: “It’s sitting on my desk right now to review.”
Six days later, administration officials gave binders labeled “The Epstein Files: Phase 1” to a group of conservative influencers who had been invited to the White House and who subsequently paraded the folders in front of the watching media.
However, the binders contained no new information, but were merely extracts from the notorious pedophile’s phone book, including a list of contacts without further context and addresses redacted.
Then, on July 6 of that year, the DOJ and FBI jointly released a memo concluding that Epstein had killed himself in jail and did not keep a roster of rich and powerful friends who abused girls as young as 14 years old — contrary to public speculation.
Even White House chief of staff Susie Wiles publicly criticized Bondi, telling Vanity Fair in remarks published in December that the AG had “completely whiffed” by not appreciating the level of public interest in the case.
“First she gave them binders full of nothingness,” Wiles complained to author Chris Whipple. “And then she said that the witness list, or the client list, was on her desk. There is no client list, and it sure as hell wasn’t on her desk.”
Under the Epstein Files Transparency Act, signed by President Trump this past November, the Justice Department is obligated to release all six million pages of files related to the disgraced financier, with redactions made to protect the identities of his victims and ongoing investigations.
“AG Bondi claims the DOJ has released all of the Epstein files. The record is clear: they have not,” Mace wrote on X Wednesday in explaining her subpoena. “The Epstein case is one of the greatest cover-ups in American history. His global sex trafficking network is larger than what is being revealed. Three million documents have been released, and we still don’t have the full truth. Videos are missing. Audio is missing. Logs are missing. There are millions more documents out there.
“We want to know why the DOJ is more focused on shielding the powerful than delivering justice,” she added. “The American people deserve answers, victims deserve justice.”
