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Two, what actually comes from these million-plus documents that do eventually get published?
And three, what will the political fallout continue to be, especially as President Trump continues to call this a hoax, attacking Democrats and Republicans who disagree with him?
We don't know how many Epstein files are yet to be released, and we don't know when they will be.
But Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanch says in a social media post that DOJ lawyers are working, quote, around the clock to review them.
A law passed by Congress and signed by President Trump in November directed the Justice Department to release all files related to Epstein by December 19th and with minimal redactions.
Neither of those requirements has been met so far, despite about 40,000 new pages published under the law in the last two weeks.
More than 90% of federal spending goes towards popular entitlement programs like Social Security, Medicare, plus spending on defense and interest payments on more than $38 trillion in debt.
Doge didn't touch those programs.
Congress would have to be the ones to take action, and this year they did.
The One Big Beautiful Bill Act saw tax cuts and new spending on President Trump's priorities.
It's actually expected to increase the federal deficit by at least $3 trillion additional dollars over the next decade.
Good morning.
Well, on the surface, it sure looked like a lot.
Justice.gov slash Epstein went live around 4 p.m., and there was a queue you had to wait in before accessing the page.
The Epstein library contained well over 100,000 pages of
Court records, Freedom of Information Act files, memoranda from the Justice Department, and videos from outside Epstein's federal prison cell where he died by suicide in 2019.
And documents that the Epstein Files Transparency Act signed into law last month compelled the Justice Department to hand over.
Well, yeah, it's not all the files.
And in the grand scheme of what was released, there aren't that many things that are actually new, Scott.