In Reply to: Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, Steve Bannon Prince Andrew posted by mh on September 26, 2025 at 10:28:22
Punchbowl News reported Friday morning that Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) may not bring lawmakers back to the U.S. Capitol all next week. The government is expected to shut down at midnight on Wednesday.
But one top congressional staffer noted that it isn't actually about the shutdown that's looming.
People will read this as a shutdown thing, but for Mike Johnson, it is 100% an Epstein files thing, and nobody knows that better than House Republicans," wrote Aaron Fritschner, deputy chief of staff to Rep. Don Beyer (D-VA), in a post on his social media.