Adelita Grijalva, who just won a special election for a House seat in Arizona last month, has still not been sworn in to Congress despite arriving in Washington, D.C., last week. Last Friday, House Speaker Mike Johnson canceled previously scheduled votes for this week and is holding “pro forma” sessions with just a few minutes of business per day. Grijalva thinks it’s because she’s the deciding vote on a petition to release the Epstein files. Democratic Congresswoman Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez echoed her concerns, writing on X, “The government is in full shutdown and the Republicans are refusing to call the House back into session. Want to know why? Because we have secured the final vote on releasing the Epstein Files and they don’t want it out.”