After the House Observation Subcommittee voted to summon the Justice Department to release Jeffrey Epstein’s files, Long Beach Rep. Robert Garcia asked the committee chair to “instantly” sign and deliver the subpoena.
Garcia’s letter to Kommer requested the DOJ to create a complete file detailing the federal investigation into Epstein.
“We are clearly and demanding that President Trump release the full Epstein file,” a Democrat on the committee said Thursday morning in Long Beach.
The Americans had waited long enough for the Epstein Files.
Today’s new: Ranking members @ReprobertGarcia They are requesting that the committee signs and committee subpoena be delivered in the Epstein file that DEMS won at the subcommittee hearing yesterday. pic.twitter.com/zq0ctbsy9r
– Monitoring dems (@oversightdems) July 24, 2025
Three Republicans from the Federal Law Enforcement Subcommittee joined Democrats to approve the motion at a subcommittee meeting on Wednesday.
Comer is forced to sign a subpoena as a result of his vote, but the letter, according to Garcia, ensures that the subpoena is comprehensive and that the requested file will be created in 30 days. He added that Comer has pledged to issue an official subpoena to the Department of Justice.
“If you hurt or abuse a child, minor or young woman, you need to be held liable for the crime, and the oversight committee is ready to do just that,” the former mayor of Long Beach said.
The subpoena calls for compilation of the victim’s name, personal information and child sexual abuse material, according to the letter.
Earlier on Wednesday, Comer summoned Jeffrey Epstein’s convicted associate Ghislaine Maxwell for deposition at a federal correctional facility in Tallahassee, Florida.
Garcia will represent the House Democrats and the Oversight Committee in a deposition of Maxwell, who has served as a 20-year sentence after being charged with federal sex trafficking in August, he announced.
Garcia warned about Thursday’s private meeting between Maxwell with her lawyer and deputy attorney general Todd Blanche, claiming that the Justice Department’s members were not present.
“We think it’s very suspicious and dangerous, and while we’re very interested in what’s going on in that conversation between Miss Maxwell, the lawyer and Donald Trump’s Department of Justice today, we guarantee we’ll make a deposit on ourselves,” the ranking member said.
He said Democrats wanted to release the file, but Garcia emphasized that the release of the file was “a matter of Donald Trump.”
The fallout against Epstein’s files plagues the agenda of President Trump and the Republicans as the White House struggles to kill the story.
According to NBC News, President Donald Trump and his aides settled in silence as a strategy to counteract his criticism of refusing to publish a file detailing the federal government’s investigation of Epstein.
Republican leaders in Congress have shunned a big bipartisan push for calling for the release of the Epstein Files at this time, and house speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) has postponed his room early due to the annual August boredom.
