Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene on Tuesday celebrated the House’s approval of a measure demanding the Department of Justice (DOJ) release the Jeffrey Epstein files, describing the vote as “a major victory” for his victims.

I stood with them this morning, the survivors who told the FBI, told law enforcement, begged for help, and were ignored. This vote should’ve been easy. Instead, the original four — [Thomas] Massie, [Nancy] Mace, [Lauren] Boebert, and myself — had to fight through months of intimidation just to get the discharge petition to 218 signatures,” Taylor Green wrote on X soon after the vote.

Americans are done being lied to. These survivors deserve full transparency. Every document, every truth, every name. And if those names reach me, I will read them on the House floor,” she added.

Ahead of the vote, she said around 1,000 women have claimed they were victimized by Epstein. She said the last five presidential administrations have worked to “cover up” the files, saying they have collectively failed the public, as well as Epstein’s victims.

As she spoke alongside the victims and their families on Capitol Hill, she said the way President Donald Trump has managed the case has significantly undermined his MAGA movement.

I’ve never owed him anything, but I fought for him, for the policies and for America First, and he called me a traitor for standing with these women and refusing to take my name off the discharge petition,” Greene said, referring to a Truth Social post from Trump in which he called her Marjorie “Traitor” Greene.

Let me tell you what a traitor is. A traitor is an American that serves foreign countries and themselves. A patriot is an American that serves the United States of America and Americans like the women standing behind me now,” she added.

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., speaks during a news conference on the Epstein Files Transparency Act, Tuesday, Nov. 18, 2025, outside the U.S. Capitol in Washington. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)

The House voted 427-1 to release the files. Hours later, the Senate unanimously voted to release the files.

The sole no vote in the House came from Rep. Clay Higgins, a Republican who is a fervent supporter of Trump. He also chairs a subcommittee that initiated a subpoena on the Justice Department for the Epstein files.

Five representatives did not vote.

I have been a principled ‘NO’ on this bill from the beginning. What was wrong with the bill three months ago is still wrong today. It abandons 250 years of criminal justice procedure in America. As written, this bill reveals and injures thousands of innocent people — witnesses, people who provided alibis, family members, etc. If enacted in its current form, this type of broad reveal of criminal investigative files, released to a rabid media, will absolutely result in innocent people being hurt. Not by my vote,” Higgins wrote on X.

The Oversight Committee is conducting a thorough investigation that has already released well over 60,000 pages of documents from the Epstein case. That effort will continue in a manner that provides all due protections for innocent Americans. If the Senate amends the bill to properly address privacy of victims and other Americans, who are named but not criminally implicated, then I will vote for that bill when it comes back to the House,” Higgins added.

Amid the votes, Trump said he doesn’t want Republicans “to take their eyes off all of the Victories that we’ve had, including THE GREAT BIG BEAUTIFUL BILL, Closed Borders, No Men in Women’s Sports or Transgender for Everyone, ending DEI, stopping Biden’s Record Setting Inflation, Biggest Tax and Regulation Cuts in History, stopping EIGHT Wars, rebuilding our Military, being RESPECTED by every Country in the World, having Trillions of Dollars INVESTED in the U.S.A., having created the “HOTTEST” Country anywhere in the World, and even delivering a HUGE DEFEAT to the Democrats on the Shutdown. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!”

A separate investigation conducted by the House Oversight Committee has released thousands of pages of emails and other documents from Epstein’s estate, showing his connections to global leaders, Wall Street powerbrokers, influential political figures and Trump himself. In the United Kingdom, King Charles III stripped his disgraced brother Prince Andrew of his remaining titles and evicted him from his royal residence after pressure to act over his relationship with Epstein.

The bill forces the release within 30 days of all files and communications related to Epstein, as well as any information about the investigation into his death in federal prison. It would allow the DOJ to redact information about Epstein’s victims or continuing federal investigations, but not information due to “embarrassment, reputational harm, or political sensitivity.”