The Republican-controlled House of Representatives has now been in recess for an entire month—and it's all because House Speaker Mike Johnson does not want to release the government’s files on accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.

The most recent time the House held a vote was Sept. 19, when Republicans passed a resolution honoring the life of bigoted right-wing activist Charlie Kirk as well as a partisan short-term government funding bill that was not negotiated with Democrats. The government shut down less than two weeks later, on Oct. 1, after the Senate failed to pass House Republicans' partisan funding legislation.

Yet, rather than bring the House back to negotiate with Democrats to reopen the government—much less pass individual appropriations bills to fund the government for lon

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