Republican US House Speaker Mike Johnson will send members of Congress home until September to avoid a vote on releasing files relating to Jeffrey Epstein, as Donald Trump’s allies seek to contain a spiralling crisis over the administration’s handling of the case.

The House of Representatives will be in recess from Wednesday for five weeks, a day earlier than scheduled.

As the Trump administration sought to combat uproar over the case, a top Department of Justice official said he would meet Ghislaine Maxwell, who was convicted for helping lure underage girls for Epstein, for possible evidence.

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