Out Rep. Robert Garcia (D-CA) said the U.S. House Oversight Committee still plans on questioning former Attorney General Pam Bondi under oath on April 14, even though the president fired her yesterday.

“She will not escape accountability and remains legally obligated to appear before our Committee under oath,” Garcia, the committee’s top Democrat, said in a statement. “She must answer for her mishandling of the Epstein files and the special treatment she has given Ghislaine Maxwell.… If they think we are moving on because they were fired, they are gravely mistaken.”

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The Oversight Committee voted to subpoena Bondi in March, with five Republicans on the committee supporting it, alongside all of the committee’s Democrats. It’s unclear whether the committee would try to hold Bondi in contempt of Congress if she refuses to attend the hearing.

However, while several Republican committee members said they would rethink their vote to have Bondi testify, even fellow committee member Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC), who pushed for Bondi’s subpoena, blasted Bondi’s handling of the Epstein files.

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“Bondi handled the Epstein Files in a terrible manner and seriously undermined President Trump,” Mace wrote in a social media post. “She has stonewalled every effort to hold the guilty accountable.”

Under Bondi’s oversight, the Department of Justice (DOJ) broke a congressionally approved law requiring it to release all of the federal government’s investigatory files on now-deceased billionaire convicted child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein. The law gave the DOJ a December 19, 2025, deadline to release all the files, but it released only part of the files last January and February — over 2.5 million files still haven’t been released, according to CNN.

The law also required the DOJ to minimize redactions in the files — particularly the names of victims — and to explain all such redactions. But lawmakers criticized Bondi for over-redacting some files while accidentally revealing victim information in others.

Bondi’s DOJ was also instrumental in relocating Ghislaine Maxwell, Epstein’s accomplice, to a lower-security prison where she has said that she’s “much happier.” In the new prison, Maxwell reportedly gets both personally delivered meals and playtime with a puppy. Maxwell has denied that the president had any involvement in Epstein’s misdeeds.

“I just think it’s time to get some answers,” said Rep. Tim Burchett (R-TN), another committee member who voted to subpoena Bondi, according to Politico. “She’s in the batter’s box. I’d say … let her hit.”

In a statement yesterday, Bondi said she would spend the next month handing her work duties over to Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, who will temporarily replace her until the Senate confirms her full-time replacement.

If Bondi appears before the committee, she will do so as a private individual and will have to pay her own legal costs associated with her appearance if, like other congressional witnesses, she has legal representation advising her during questioning.

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