Republican Bid to Help Trump Move Past Epstein Falls Flat

“We’re going to keep the pressure up — 100 percent,” Senator Ruben Gallego, Democrat of Arizona, said at an event in Iowa this month. “As often as we can, until we know exactly what happened, why it happened.”

Even with Congress in recess, the Epstein case continues to generate attention in Washington. On Monday, William P. Barr, who was President Trump’s attorney general when Mr. Epstein died, testified in a closed-door deposition for the Oversight Committee.

Democrats have also signaled that they will continue to try to bring the Epstein case up for debate on the Senate floor in an attempt to force Republicans to record positions on the issue.

Hours before the Senate left for the summer, a group of Democrats sought to win quick adoption of a measure that would direct the Justice Department to publicly release all files tied to the investigation. As expected, Republicans objected.