GOP Rep. Thomas Massie is on his way to notching the 218 signatures required to end-run Speaker Mike Johnson and force a floor vote on his bipartisan legislation to release Jeffrey Epstein-related documents.
Newly sworn-in Democratic Rep. James Walkinshaw, who won a special election in Virginia Tuesday night, signed the petition late Wednesday, he said in an interview. “The discharge petition in the House … is really the only mechanism to circumvent that ironclad control that Donald Trump has over my Republican colleagues,” Walkinshaw told POLITICO afterward.
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