On Jan. 30, 2026, Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche announced that the Justice Department was publishing more than 3 million pages from its Epstein files, including more than 2,000 videos and 180,000 images. That brought the total released under the Epstein Files Transparency Act to about 3.5 million pages. Blanche said the release marked the end of the department’s review and put it in compliance with the law.

The act, signed Nov. 19, 2025, gave the department until Dec. 19 to release everything. It missed that deadline. Blanche said lawyers had to review more than 6 million potentially responsive pages to protect the identities of more than 1,000 victims. Nearly 3 million pages were held back, he said, for reasons including child sexual abuse material and victims’ rights, with another 200,000 withheld over legal privileges. Asked whether anything was kept out to shield President Trump, he said: “We did not protect President Trump.”

The release drew fire from several directions. Democrats questioned what was withheld. Reps. Thomas Massie and Ro Khanna, the law’s sponsors, pressed to see unredacted files. And 20 survivors said in a joint statement that the release exposed them instead, after reporters found some victims’ names and images left unredacted.