The Justice Department seeks to interview the disgraced financier’s jailed associate, Ghislaine Maxwell, as calls for transparency into the matter persist.

Johnson, a Republican from Louisiana, said Tuesday morning that he wants to give the White House “space” to release the Epstein information on its own, despite the bipartisan push for legislation that aims to force the release of more documents.

House Speaker Mike Johnson on Tuesday (July 22) said he would send lawmakers home a day early for a five-week summer recess to avoid a political fight over files on disgraced financier and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.