With Congress turning blue, here’s what you may see next with Epstein files

Miami Herald · Julie K. Brown, Claire Healy · 2026-11-04 22:05 UTC

With both the House and Senate turning blue after midterm elections, Democrats will have more legal power to conduct investigation of Jeffrey Epstein files.

Jeffrey Epstein may be dead, but his ghost continues to haunt American politics.

In the run-up to the midterms, candidates spent millions on campaign ads that attempted to tie candidates to sexual abuse, pedophilia or Epstein. Epstein’s survivors traveled the country with an exhibit containing Department of Justice files bound into thousands of physical volumes on the case. Several of them campaigned against members of Congress who failed, initially, to support the Epstein Files Transparency Act.

Polls, meanwhile, consistently show that roughly three quarters of Americans disapprove of the way the Epstein case is being handled by the Trump administration. Most Americans want all the government files released and believe that there should be accountability for others involved in Epstein’s crimes.

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