Five House Republicans just voted to subpoena their own party's attorney general. That doesn't happen often.

On 4 March, the House Oversight Committee approved a motion 24-19 to compel Attorney GeneralPam Bondito testify about the Justice Department's handling of the Jeffrey Epstein files. The next day, the DOJ released documents it admitted were 'incorrectly coded as duplicative,' files containing uncorroborated accusations against PresidentDonald Trumpthat should have been public months ago.

The timing raised eyebrows. So did the bipartisan vote.

These people broke with their party to support the subpoena. These aren't moderates in safe seats. They're conservative lawmakers who've calculated that blocking transparency on the Epstein files carries more political risk than defying GOP leadership.

November 2026 midterms loom. Voters are watching.

'AG Bondi claims the DOJ has released all of the Epstein files. The record is clear: they have not,' Mace wrote on X after the vote. 'Three million documents have been released, and we still don't have the full truth. Videos are missing. Audio is missing. Logs are missing.'

🚨BREAKING: We're moving to subpoena U.S. Attorney General, Pam Bondi🚨AG Bondi claims the DOJ has released all of the Epstein files. The record is clear: they have not.The Epstein case is one of the greatest cover-ups in American history. His global sex trafficking network…pic.twitter.com/6VjJVdZAZc

The DOJ blamed the missing files on a clerical mistake. Officials said the documents were tagged as duplicates when they weren't.

'When flagged by the public, we immediately work to correct any errors that the team may have initially made,' the department said, according to CNBC.

The newly released records include FBI interview summaries with a woman who contacted agents after Epstein's 2019 arrest. She made accusations against Trump, though the DOJnoted in Januarythat some documents contain 'untrue and sensationalist claims against President Trump that were submitted to the FBI right before the 2020 election.' Trump has denied all wrongdoing connected to Epstein.

Source: International Business Times UK