A Democratic senator is accusing Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent of withholding key information that could help illuminate the finances of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, ramping up the bipartisan pressure the department faces to release its confidential trove of financial files on the matter.

In a new letter, Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., says Bessent is "directly responsible for the decision to withhold the Epstein files from Congress."

"This ill-advised decision is impeding my investigation into the financing of Epstein's sex trafficking and preventing transparency into one of the worst pedophile rings in U.S. history," Wyden, the top Democrat on the Senate Finance Committee, wrote in the letter sent on Tuesday.

The letter comes only two days after House Oversight Chair James Come

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