Ranking Member Robert Garcia Statement After GOP Speaker Mike Johnson Cancels Session Amid Republican Government Shutdown

Washington, D.C. — Today, Rep. Robert Garcia, Ranking Member of the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, released the following statement after Republican Speaker of the House Mike Johnson cancelled session next week, prolonging the ongoing Republican shutdown and preventing Representative-elect Adelita Grijalva from being sworn into Congress. Grijalva would be the final signature on the discharge petition to force a vote on releasing the Epstein files.

“It’s clear Speaker Mike Johnson does not care about reopening the government, paying federal workers, or saving health care for millions of Americans. Keeping us from voting will not stop our Epstein investigation,” said Ranking Member Robert Garcia. “He is preventing Adelita Grijalva’s swearing in to block the release of the Epstein Files and continue Trump’s cover-up. Speaker Johnson must bring the House back in session and end this sham government shutdown now.”

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