The Republican speaker truncated the legislative schedule for the week ahead of a summer recess, moving to deny Democrats the chance to force votes on whether to release the Epstein material.
The Republican speaker of the House had said last week that the government should release “everything” in the Jeffrey Epstein files, in a rare break with the president that turned out to be short-lived.
The Kentucky Republican, a frequent critic of President Trump, teamed with a Democrat in a maneuver that could force G.O.P. leaders to hold a vote on the matter within weeks.
“I don’t accept it, and I don’t think anyone else should accept it,” Marjorie Taylor Greene said of the decision not to release more information about Jeffrey Epstein.
The top Senate Democrat said the law would lead to widespread pain for voters, imperiling Republicans who supported it and allowing his party more openings to contest control of the Senate.
Senator Chuck Schumer, Democrat of New York, on Capitol Hill this week. “The three issues we’re going to most campaign on: costs, jobs, and health care,” he said in an interview on Thursday.
The North Carolina senator, who recently said he did not plan to run for re-election, said the defense secretary’s decisions had been amateurish and showed he was unfit to lead a large organization.