WASHINGTON, Dec. 19 -- Sen. Jeff Merkley issued the following press release:
Today, Oregon's U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley-the lead Senate sponsor of the Epstein Files Transparency Act (https://www.merkley.senate.gov/merkley-murkowski-lujan-massie-khanna-demand-doj-briefing-on-release-of-the-epstein-files/)-issued the following statement after the Trump Administration indicated it would only release part of the Epstein Files, a violation of the law he championed:
"The Trump Administration has had almost one year since Trump returned to office to appropriately redact the Epstein Files to prepare them for release. Instead of meeting the legally required deadline today to release all of the files, they have chosen to illegally disregard the law ...