The Republican-led House Oversight Committee voted 24-19 on March 4, 2026, to subpoena Attorney General Pam Bondi for testimony about the DOJ's handling of Jeffrey Epstein files. The subpoena was moved by Republican Rep. Nancy Mace, with five Republicans joining all Democrats in voting yes.
This is a remarkable development: a Republican-controlled committee issuing a subpoena to a Republican Attorney General over her handling of sex trafficking documents. Bondi faces bipartisan criticism for the DOJ's pattern of withholding, redacting, and “accidentally” removing Epstein files that contain allegations against President Trump.
The vote came just one day before the DOJ was caught having withheld 16 pages of FBI documents describing a woman's accusation that Trump sexually assaulted her at age 13 — documents the DOJ claimed were “mistakenly” marked as duplicative.
Bondi has been under fire from both parties for months. Despite Congress passing the Epstein Files Transparency Act and Trump signing it into law, the DOJ under Bondi has systematically failed to produce complete records, with NPR investigations revealing a pattern of specifically removing documents that mention Trump.