Todd Blanche was confirmed as attorney general 50-49 before dawn on Saturday. Fourteen Republicans we track voted yes — and thirteen of them had already voted to put him at the Justice Department once before.
FEC records show Iowa Senate candidate Ashley Hinson took nearly $90,000 from billionaires named in the Epstein files — including $30,500 while she was refusing to sign the petition that would force those files into the open.
On September 10, 2025, Sullivan voted to table the amendment forcing the Justice Department to release the Epstein files. It failed 51-49. Months later, FEC records show donations from Henry Kravis and Howard Lorber — both of whom appear in Epstein's records.
House Majority Whip Tom Emmer trumpets his Oversight Committee's Minnesota fraud probe, but stays silent on the same committee's Epstein investigation — the one his own son runs.