The House voted against censuring Del. Stacey Plaskett (D-VI) over her text message exchange with sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein during a 2019 congressional hearing.
The 214-209 vote means that Plaskett will not face a congressional reprimand, nor will she lose her seat on the House Intelligence Committee.
The House defeated a move by Republicans to censure Democratic Delegate Stacey Plaskett from the Virgin Islands on Tuesday.
Besides censuring her, Republicans wanted her off the Intelligence Committee after it was revealed she was texting with disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein during a Congressional hearing in 2019.
The failed attempt to censure Plaskett happened after both the House and Senate moved forward and voted to release files the Department of Justice has on Epstein, according to The New York Times.
The House voted 214-209 not to censure Plaskett. Three Republicans voted against censuring her and three other Republicans voted “present.”
🚨 BREAKING: In a pathetic move, US House REJECTS censuring Democrat Stacey Plaskett over her collusion with Epstein to harm Donald Trump in 2019
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) November 19, 2025
EVERY DEMOCRAT VOTED TO PROTECT HER.
You disgust America, Dems. You're in leagues with Epstein and you just got exposed!
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Many on the right criticized the vote. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) in a post on X claimed the outcome was a result of a deal to halt Plaskett’s censure. “3 Republicans crossed the aisle and voted with Democrats to stop the Plaskett censure resolution in a swap so that Democrats would not bring up the Cory Mills (R) censure resolution for alleged physical assaults and threatening to release pornography on an ex-girlfriend and ethics violations and questionable military record,” she wrote.”
Yesterday after 5 ridiculous months of fighting the WH and the Speaker to get Congress to finally vote to release the Epstein files, a deal was made to stop the censure of Stacey Plaskett, a Democrat delegate from the territory of US Virgin Islands, which would have also kicked…
— Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene🇺🇸 (@RepMTG) November 19, 2025
Rep. Tim Burchett (R-TN) backed up Greene’s story in a video posted on X.
Tim Burchett confirms that GOP House leadership made a deal to protect Cory Mills in exchange for not punishing Epstein-confidant Stacey Plaskett.
— Bonchie (@bonchieredstate) November 19, 2025
Disgusting.
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The Plaskett controversy centered on documents that emerged showing that the lawmaker was actively texting with Epstein during a congressional hearing with former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen. Epstein allegedly advised her throughout the proceedings, suggesting questions for her to ask Cohen.
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