Welcome to Meet the Press Now.

I'm Kristen Welker in Washington, where we are following two major stories unfolding right now on Capitol Hill.

At this moment, the House will start the process of voting to end the longest shutdown in American

history with a final vote expected in the coming hours.

That vote is happening after earlier today House Democrats released emails from Jeffrey

Epstein's estate that raised new questions about how much President Trump knew about the

convicted sex offenders' conduct.

House Republicans then released 20,000 pages of Epstein-related documents as well today.

Right now, Speaker Mike Johnson is about to swear in Congresswoman elect Adelita Gracalva

more than a month after she won a special election in Arizona.

Congresswoman Groslva will give Democrats the final signature they need to force a House vote

on ordering the Justice Department to release all the Epstein case files.

Debate on the bill to reopen the government will begin as soon as the swearing-in is over.

Speaker Johnson earlier today expressing confidence it will pass, even as House Democratic

leadership remains staunchly opposed to the Senate's bipartisan agreement.

All of that's on the Democrats. Just never forget. They voted 15 times between the House and the

Senate to close your government. And the Republicans tried every single day of the shutdown to

open it. And we voted 15 times to do that. single day of the shutdown to open it.

And we voted 15 times to do that. They have a lot to answer for. And I just want to say that

we're very optimistic about the vote tally tonight. We think this is going to happen. And we're

sorry that it took this long. House Democrats are strongly opposed to this partisan Republican spending bill that continues

to gut the health care of the American people. We've said from the very beginning that we want to

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