On the morning of the Epstein files vote, Washington woke to a zero-degree morning.

Marjorie Taylor Greene could see the symbolism.

"I woke up this morning and I turned to my weather app," the Republican congresswoman said at the US Capitol, "and my first thought was: hell has froze over".

By the end of the wintry day in DC, there were even more reasons to believe that hell could indeed be caked in ice.

The bill to release the Epstein files, which survivors had championed in vain for so long, had won almost unanimous support in the US House of Representatives.

It was a remarkable result after months of stasis. Less than a week ago, almost half of House members were still refusing to back moves to bring the bill to a vote.

The Republican leader of the House, Mike Johnson, had spent mo

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