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Massie, top Oversight Democrat call for Secretary Lutnick to resign for ‘lying’ about alleged Epstein ties
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The top Democrat on the House Oversight Committee piled onto calls from Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., on Monday for Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick to step down in light of alleged business ties to Jeffrey Epstein.
Files released by the DOJ suggest that Lutnick and Epstein bought stakes together in a technology company called Adfin in 2012.
Lutnick, who is listed among nine other investors, appears as a «signatory» alongside Epstein, who is named as a «preferred holder.»
Notably, the purchase is dated four years after Epstein was convicted in 2008 for sexual abuse involving a 14-year-old girl.
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Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., Robert Garcia, D-Calif., and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick are pictured from left to right. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call, Inc. via Getty Images; Tasha Poullard/Lexington Herald-Leader/Tribune News Service via Getty Images; Fabrice Coffrini/AFP via Getty Images)
Rep. Robert Garcia, D-Calif., said the documents clearly contradicted previous statements from Lutnick about his relationship with Epstein.
«It’s now clear that Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick has been lying about his relationship with Epstein. He said he had no interactions with Epstein after 2005, and we now know they were in business together,» Garcia said in a post to X.
«Lutnick must resign or be fired. And he must answer our questions,» Garcia added.
Garcia’s calls follow similar comments made by Massie on Sunday. When asked about Lutnick’s appearance in the files on CNN, Massie also said that Lutnick should step down.
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Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., arrives for a House vote on Feb. 3, 2026, in Washington, D.C. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)
«He should just resign. Prince [Andrew] lost his title for less than what we’ve seen Howard Lutnick lie about,» Massie said, referring to the member of the royal family who was stripped of his titles last year for his association with Epstein.
«He was in business with Jeffrey Epstein — and this was many years after Epstein was convicted for sexual crimes. So, he’s got a lot to answer for.»
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Other documents in the Epstein files reveal communications between Lutnick and Epstein’s staff that suggest Lutnick may have met with Epstein in the Virgin Islands.
«Jeffrey Epstein understands you will be down in St. Thomas some over the holidays. Jeffrey requested I please pass along some phone numbers to you so the two of you can possibly get together,» an assistant to Epstein wrote in an email dated November 2012.
In response to an inquiry from Fox News Digital on the criticism from Garcia and Massie, a spokesperson for the Department of Commerce framed their demands as a distraction.
Howard Lutnick, Commerce secretary, participates in a roundtable in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington, D.C., on Dec. 10, 2025. (Aaron Schwartz/CNP/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
«Mr. Lutnick met Jeffrey Epstein in 2005 and had very limited interactions with him over the next 14 years,» the spokesperson said.
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«This is nothing more than a failing attempt by the legacy media to distract from the administration’s accomplishments, including securing trillions of dollars in investment, delivering historic trade deals and fighting for the American worker.»
House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., did not respond to a request for comment on whether the committee would consider questioning Lutnick as a part of the committee’s ongoing probe of Epstein and his crimes.
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Las empresas navieras de Grecia, los Emiratos Árabes Unidos y China son las más afectadas por el cierre del estrecho de Ormuz, según datos de Bloomberg y de organizaciones de tráfico marítimo.
Alrededor de 670 buques de carga enviaron señales desde el oeste del estrecho de Ormuz durante el último día, de los cuales 120 pertenecían a empresas de los cercanos Emiratos Árabes Unidos, lo que representa alrededor del 18 % del total.
La guerra estalló el 28 de febrero cuando Estados Unidos e Israel lanzaron ataques contra Irán, lo que desencadenó ataques de represalia en toda la región, con las fuerzas de Teherán apuntando a esta crucial vía marítima.
Las cifras podrían subestimar los totales reales, ya que es posible que algunos buques hayan apagado sus transpondedores.
Grecia
Después de los Emiratos Árabes Unidos, el siguiente en la lista es Grecia: sus empresas cuentan con al menos 75 buques de carga que se encuentran en el estrecho desde el inicio de la guerra, alrededor del 12 % del total.
De esos buques, unos 30 son petroleros o gaseros, según un análisis de datos de Bloomberg, que recopila información de diversas organizaciones.
China
Los países asiáticos se han visto muy afectados por el cierre.
Las empresas chinas cuentan con 74 buques de carga en la zona, 25 de los cuales son petroleros y gaseros. El resto son buques de carga seca a granel, como los portacontenedores.
Japón
Las empresas japonesas tienen al menos 23 buques de petróleo y gas y 16 buques de carga seca en el estrecho.
Además, 25 buques de Hong Kong —13 de petróleo y gas, 12 de carga seca— también se encuentran en la región.
India
Las empresas con sede en la India cuentan con 24 buques de petróleo y gas en la zona.
Las empresas de Singapur y Corea del Sur también se han visto afectadas, con 29 y 22 buques de mercancías, respectivamente, atascados desde que comenzó la guerra.
Vietnam tiene tres grandes buques de transporte de gas en la zona.
Petróleo y gas
Alrededor de 50 superpetroleros (VLCC) parecen estar varados, junto con 11 supergaseros.
Corea del Sur cuenta con siete de los VLCC, las empresas de China y Japón cuentan con seis cada una, y Grecia con cinco.
Buques vinculados a Irán
De las 225 travesías realizadas por buques de carga desde el inicio de la guerra, más de 40 fueron de buques iraníes, según datos de la empresa de inteligencia marítima Kpler.
Otras 60 fueron de buques que no enarbolan pabellón ni son propiedad directa de Irán, pero que están sancionados por Estados Unidos en el marco de su programa sobre Irán.
Travesías griegas y chinas
Unas 35 travesías han sido realizadas por buques de propiedad griega, incluidas ocho de una sola empresa, Dynacom Tankers Management Ltd.
Al menos 20 buques afiliados a China y 13 vinculados a la India han realizado el trayecto.
Algunos buques parecen haber cruzado el estrecho a través de un sistema de verificación en el que Irán concede paso seguro a ciertos buques de países amigos.
Buques estadounidenses en el punto de mira
Cientos de buques parecen estar esperando a que pase la guerra, dados los altísimos costos de los seguros y el peligro para la vida y la carga.
De los buques en la zona que informaron de ataques o actividades sospechosas, alrededor de la mitad estaban vinculados a Europa o a Estados Unidos, según el Servicio de Operaciones de Comercio Marítimo del Reino Unido y la información sobre la propiedad disponible públicamente.
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Top congressional Democrats, party campaign arms and allied groups are suing President Donald Trump and his administration over a sweeping order he signed this week that would increase federal involvement in elections.
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., along with the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, the Democratic Governors Association and the Democratic National Committee, filed the lawsuit Thursday.
The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., seeks to block Trump’s executive order signed Tuesday targeting mail-in voting and voter eligibility, as Senate Republicans continue debating the Safeguarding American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act.
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Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., left, hold a news conference on the GOP reconciliation bill at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, June 11, 2025. (J. Scott Applewhite/AP Photo)
«The American people are fed up with Republicans’ price-spiking, health care-gutting agenda and are ready to vote them out,» Schumer, Jeffries and the committee chairs said in a joint statement. «That’s why Donald Trump is desperately trying to rig our elections by making it harder to vote for seniors, Americans with disabilities, members of the military, rural communities and other working families who rely on vote-by-mail. This move is blatantly unconstitutional, and we will fight against it.»
«We are taking action to challenge Trump’s executive order to protect the right to vote and ensure every eligible American can make their voice heard at the ballot box,» they added.
Trump has warned Republicans that if they cannot pass the SAVE America Act — which is unlikely given unified Democratic opposition in the Senate — the GOP could face major losses in the upcoming midterm elections.
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President Donald Trump signs an executive order on mail ballots in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, D.C., March 31, 2026. (Evan Vucci/Reuters Photos)
The executive order, signed earlier this week, reflects Trump taking matters into his own hands amid the political reality in Congress.
The order would create federal «citizenship lists» of U.S. citizens using government databases, require those lists to be shared with states before elections, and give the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) authority over mail-in voting logistics. It would also require voters to be enrolled with USPS to receive mail ballots.
The order would allow USPS to refuse delivery of ballots from people not on its approved list and impose new federal design and processing rules for mail-in ballot envelopes.
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Vote by mail ballots are inspected at the Los Angeles County Ballot Processing Center on Nov. 4, 2025, in California.. (Gina Ferazzi/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)
Democrats argue the order is unconstitutional on several grounds, including that it overrides states’ authority over elections, violates the separation of powers, breaches privacy laws and risks disenfranchising millions of voters.
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They argue Trump has «no such authority» to impose sweeping changes on elections nationwide.
«If permitted, the President’s actions would fundamentally alter the constitutional balance between the states and the federal government by allowing the executive branch to wield federal power to pressure states into adopting federal preferences for the conduct of elections,» they wrote in the lawsuit.
The White House did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital’s request for comment.
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Trump estableció inicialmente cinco objetivos para la guerra contra Irán. Así están las cosas
1. “Vamos a destruir sus misiles y arrasar su industria armamentística. Quedará totalmente aniquilada de nuevo.”
2. “Vamos a aniquilar su armada.”
3. “Nos aseguraremos de que los grupos terroristas afines a la región ya no puedan desestabilizar la región ni el mundo»
4. “Y nos aseguraremos de que Irán no obtenga un arma nuclear. Es un mensaje muy sencillo. Nunca tendrán un arma nuclear.”
5. “Finalmente, al gran y orgulloso pueblo de Irán, les digo esta noche que la hora de su libertad está cerca. «
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