House Oversight and Government Reform Committee ranking member Robert Garcia (D-Calif.) said the plan for the Department of Justice to respond in “batches” to the committee’s subpoena for files relating to the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein amounts to a “cover-up.”

“Releasing the Epstein files in batches just continues this White House cover-up,” Garcia said in a statement on Tuesday. “The American People will not accept anything short of the full, unredacted Epstein files.”

Garcia’s statement came as the clock struck noon on Tuesday, the deadline for the Department of Justice to turn over documents and communications relating to the “Epstein files” pursuant to an Oversight panel subpoena issued earlier this month.

Rep. James Comer (R-Ky.), the chair of the panel, said Monday that th

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