Pam Bondi subpoenaed by House panel to testify on Epstein files

Erik Wasson, Bloomberg News on Mar 4, 2026

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WASHINGTON — The House committee investigating Jeffrey Epstein voted to subpoena U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi to testify on her handling of Justice Department files on the disgraced financier.

The Republican-led House Oversight Committee voted 24 to 19 Wednesday to issue the subpoena.

A Justice Department spokesman didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment on the vote.

Republican Nancy Mace of South Carolina proposed the subpoena and it passed the over the objection of the panel’s chairman, James Comer of Kentucky.

Mace said the subpoena would require a taped, closed-door deposition under oath and a time had not yet been set for it to take place. She said she would ask Bondi about files related to Epstein that have not been released as required under a law passed by Congress.

“I need to get to the bottom of this,” she told reporters after the vote. “This is going to go down as one of the greatest coverups in American history.”

The extraordinary move by the Republican-controlled committee demonstrates how the Epstein issue continues to bedevil the party. Democrats allege that files related to President Donald Trump are being withheld, while the president says he is innocent of any crimes related to Epstein, who died in 2019.

Former President Bill Clinton and his wife, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, gave depositions to the committee last week. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick this week agreed to testify in the investigation.

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With assistance from Chris Strohm.

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