Senate Democrats make late push to drive GOP’s Epstein files headache

Democrats in the Senate are picking up the baton from their colleagues in the House to keep the Jeffrey Epstein saga in the news cycle and stoke GOP divisions.

A small group of Senate Democrats, led by Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY), is invoking a nearly century-old law to try to obtain the Epstein files from the Justice Department in a move that could also splinter Republicans in the upper chamber who’ve largely avoided scrutiny from their conservative base.