Congress returns to Epstein drama, shutdown threats, 2026 plans

国会重燃爱泼斯坦争议,面临停摆威胁,筹划2026议程

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2025-09-06

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Congress has less than a month to figure out how to fund the government. But instead of that pressing business, calls for greater government transparency over allegations against convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein dominated Capitol Hill this week. On Tuesday, the House Oversight Committee released more than 33,000 documents related to the investigation, most of which are already publicly available.. But other lawmakers say this effort doesn’t go far enough. Reps. Thomas Massie (R-Kentucky) and Ro Khanna (D-California) continued to push a competing effort that could force the Justice Department to release more files.  Host Colby Itkowitz sits down with Post congressional reporter Marianna Sotomayor and senior national political correspondent Naftali Bendavid to discuss this news as well as the looming government funding deadline and how Democrats are thinking about flipping the House in the 2026 midterms.  Subscribe to The Washington Post here.
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  • So, there's been some major engagement news lately.

  • Last week, it was pop star Taylor Swift and football player Travis Kelsey.

  • Then this week, Senator Cory Booker of New Jersey announced he was engaged.

  • You know, last week with Taylor and Travis, they were in this like gorgeous lush garden.

  • This week with Booker, he was in Hawaii.

  • Of course, in both cases, there were professional photographers to capture it all.

  • And I'm just gonna say, this is not how my engagement went down.

  • How about you guys?

  • Mine did go down with professional photographers abroad.

  • Oh, I see.

  • So you could rival Taylor and Booker, I think.

  • I could.

  • Yeah.

  • How did you propose to your wife?

  • I proposed on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, which I thought was like super cool and original.

  • And it turns out like a lot of people do that.

  • It was much less of a brilliant new idea than I had thought.

  • But this was before the era of promposals and fancy things.

  • So it was just kind of pretty straightforward.

  • But it's better than your backyard, like Travis did, you know?