Listening to #BBC broadcasts reminds that a lot of folks internationally (and unfortunately a lot of folks in the US) don't really understand how the US government is structured when it comes to things like the #Epstein file issue.
Procedurally, it's much more complicated than "Just release the files!"
(The following is brief illustration of the situation)
At the surface, the act of Congress is rather pointless. With coequal branches, Congress lacks authority to order the Executive to release anyway, so the passage is only symbolic. #Trump could have released the documents he had at any point, or not released them, and that doesn't change here.
BUT complicating this is that Congress already passed laws that sought to restrict the release of such documents. So it's one symbol running into another and an Executive playing them off each other.
Media reports really miss the nuances of the structure in this arrangement, as parliamentary systems don't really have these.
