House Rules Committee Democrats have effectively forced Republicans on the committee to block their effort to tag a release of the Epstein files onto advancing cryptocurrency legislation called the GENIUS Act.

The Democrats’ attempt to sneak in an unrelated amendment to a House crypto regulations bill was not going to get past the House GOP-led Rules Committee, but it did force Republicans to look like they were covering for the Trump administration or keeping Epstein transparency from the public.

“The question with Epstein is: Whose side are you on?” Rep. Ro Khanna, D-Calif., told Axios before the vote that was expected to fail.

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