Democratic Rep. Ro Khanna says President Donald Trump and GOP leaders are using the government shutdown to block the release of the Jeffrey Epstein files.

“This House is shut down because they don’t want to have the release of the Epstein files,” the California congressman told Joanna Coles, host of The Daily Beast Podcast.

He added, “Every time [Republicans] take these extraordinary measures, like shutting down the Congress—not even having votes out of fear of releasing these files—it adds to the skepticism and anger of the American public who think that there’s something rotten there.”

House Speaker Mike Johnson has refused to swear in Arizona Rep.-elect Adelita Grijalva, a Democrat who pledged to cast the 218th vote needed on a discharge petition that would compel a floor vote on th

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