The House Oversight Committee voted on Wednesday (March 4, 2026) to subpoena Attorney General Pam Bondi to answer questions over the Justice Department’s handling of files related to the Jeffrey Epstein sex trafficking investigation.

Five Republicans joined Democrats to support the subpoena proposed by GOP Rep. Nancy Mace of South Carolina in a sign of continued frustration with the department’s review and release of a tranche of documents regarding the disgraced financier.

The Justice Department had no immediate comment on the subpoena.

Former President Bill Clinton and his wife, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, recently sat with lawmakers on the committee for their own depositions over the former Democratic President’s connections to Epstein from more than two decades ago.

King Charles III will “stand ready to support” the police if approached about accusations that his brother, ex-prince Andrew, may have passed sensitive reports to Jeffrey Epstein when he was a U.K. trade envoy, Buckingham Palace said Monday (February 9, 2026).

“The King has made clear… his profound concern at allegations which continue to come to light in respect of Mr (Andrew) Mountbatten-Windsor’s conduct,” the palace said in a statement, after U.K. police said they were “assessing” the misconduct allegations arising from files related to the late American sex offender Epstein.

“While the specific claims in question are for Mr Mountbatten-Windsor to address, if we are approached by Thames Valley Police we stand ready to support them as you would expect.”

The U.S. Department of Justice said on Monday (January 6, 2026) it is still reviewing more than two million documents potentially related to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein as it pushed more than two weeks past a deadline to release all files connected to him.

The department began releasing documents from the decades-long investigation into the late disgraced financier last month, but failed to meet the December 19 deadline mandated under the Epstein Files Transparency Act.

In a letter on Monday to a federal judge, DOJ officials said more than two million documents remained “in various phases of review.”

About 12,285 documents comprising more than 125,000 pages, the letter said, had already been publicly released in response to the law — less than one percent of the tranche currently in review.

The DOJ said it identified on December 24 more than one million files not included in its initial review.

Some of those documents appeared to be duplicates but would still need “processing and deduplication,” the letter noted.

“Substantial work remains to be done,” said the letter, signed by Attorney General Pam Bondi and others involved.

More than 400 DOJ attorneys will spend “the next few weeks” reviewing the documents, the officials said.

At least 100 FBI employees trained in handling “sensitive victim information” will assist the effort.

U.S. President Donald Trump is facing strong pushback from Democrats for failing to release all files related to Epstein in a timely manner.

The Trump administration has defended its handling of the documents, noting the need to protect sensitive information about victims.

In Monday’s letter, the DOJ officials said they must “manually” review the documents for “victim identifying information.”

President Donald Trump’s Justice Department faces a Friday (December 17, 2025) deadline to release a massive ​trove of documents from its investigations into the late financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey ‌Epstein, after Congress overwhelmingly approved a new law forcing their disclosure last month.

That legislation followed months ​of political wrangling as well as rebellion by some of Mr. Trump’s staunchest supporters over his administration’s months-long reluctance to make the records public.

It remains unclear how, or when, the files will be released on Friday (December 17), but they will likely not represent all unclassified records held by the agency. The law allowed the Justice Department to withhold personal information about Epstein’s victims as well as any material that would jeopardize an active investigation.

Attorneys in the Justice Department’s National Security Division were ordered to review the materials and redact them in preparation for their ​release, two sources briefed on the matter said.

They have been working on the task since ⁠after the Thanksgiving holiday and were ordered to prioritize it over other casework. But due to the quick turnaround time, some are nervous about potential mistakes and the chance that some personally identifiable information could accidentally remain, the sources said.

Mr. Trump had initially urged Republicans, who control ​both chambers of Congress, to oppose the law, ⁠arguing that releasing potentially sensitive internal investigative records could set a dangerous precedent. He publicly reversed course just before the vote, even as the White House quietly lobbied senators to slow-walk passage of the Bill.

But many Mr. Trump voters accused his administration of covering up Epstein’s ties to powerful figures and obscuring details surrounding his ‌2019 death in a Manhattan jail, where he was awaiting trial on charges of abusing and ‌trafficking underage girls. While Epstein’s death was ruled a suicide, it sparked years of conspiracy theories, some amplified by Trump himself to his supporters when he was a presidential candidate.

If ‍the Justice Department does not release all of its files, it is likely that many Trump supporters will still not be satisfied. That could mean the issue remains a political headache for the president and his Republican Party ‍heading into tough midterm congressional elections next year.

Trumps gets poor ratings on Epstein issue

Just 44% of American adults who identify as Republicans approve of Mr. Trump’s handling of the Epstein issue, compared to his 82% overall approval rating among the group, according to a recent Reuters/Ipsos poll.

Last month, Democrats in the House of Representatives released thousands of emails obtained from Epstein’s estate, including one in which Epstein wrote that Mr. Trump “knew about the girls,” without clarifying what that meant. Trump, in response, accused Democrats of promoting the “Epstein Hoax” as a distraction.

House Republicans released more emails the same day, including one saying Trump visited Epstein’s house many times but “never got a massage.” Mr. Trump was once friendly with Epstein ⁠until they had a falling out in the mid-2000s, before Epstein’s first conviction in 2008. Trump has not been accused of wrongdoing and has denied knowing about Epstein’s sex trafficking.

But he ​reneged on a 2024 campaign promise to declassify the government’s Epstein files if elected, prompting some lawmakers to launch what ⁠at first was seen as a long-shot effort to force a vote on disclosure. Two days after Congress’ email releases, Trump ordered the Justice Department to investigate Epstein’s connections to Democratic former President Bill Clinton and J.P. Morgan, in what critics viewed as an effort to shift the focus away from himself.

The following week, despite White House pressure to delay the vote, U.S. lawmakers passed a bill forcing the ⁠release of the Justice Department records, which Mr. Trump then signed into law.