The bill sailed through the House on Tuesday with a sweeping 427–1 vote before heading to the Senate, where lawmakers approved it unanimously the same day. That cleared the path for the bill to land on Trump’s desk.

Interestingly, the legislation was co-sponsored by Republican Rep. Thomas Massie of Kentucky and Democratic Rep. Ro Khanna of California. Massie has repeatedly said the former president didn’t need a law to make the documents public, reminding Americans that Trump could have ordered their release at any time.

Just days earlier, Trump had taken a hard stance against the idea, arguing that Republicans would be “soft and foolish” to support the measure. But by Sunday night, he flipped his position, urging House Republicans to vote in favour of the bill and promising to sign it once approved.

Trump insists he has nothing to hide and maintains that Democrats were closer to Epstein. However, Mark Epstein, Jeffrey Epstein’s brother — has claimed that some Republican-linked names are being quietly removed from the files, suggesting the sudden GOP support might not be as straightforward as it seems.

In a Truth Social post shortly after signing the law, Trump turned the moment political, describing Epstein as a lifelong Democrat and listing several prominent Democratic figures he claimed were closely connected to him, including Bill Clinton, Larry Summers, Reid Hoffman, Hakeem Jeffries, Stacey Plaskett, and “many more.”

With the bill now signed, attention shifts to how much of Epstein’s history the public will finally be able to see and which powerful names might appear in the long-awaited documents.