The White House held a meeting with Rep. Lauren Boebert on Wednesday before a discharge petition forcing a vote on a full release of the Jeffrey Epstein files was signed by newly sworn-in Rep. Adelita Grijalva.

Boebert confirmed the meeting took place, thanking White House officials for meeting with her.

“Together, we remain committed to ensuring transparency for the American people,” Boebert said in a post to X.

Grijalva (D-AZ) was the decisive 218th signatory of the discharge petition, moments after being sworn in by House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA).

Grijalva joined all Democrats in signing it, as well as Boebert and Reps. Thomas Massie (R-KY), Nancy Mace (R-SC), and Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA).

Trump, House GOP leadership, and the Justice Department have sought to move past the Epstein files following public fallout from when the department announced after the July 4 weekend that it had no plans to make any further documents available and affirmed that Epstein died by suicide in 2019 while awaiting trial on charges related to the sex trafficking of minors.

House Oversight Committee ranking member Robert Garcia (D-CA) told reporters he was “very concerned” about the meeting with Boebert, while asking why the president is directing a “cover-up.”

“Donald Trump is now apparently calling Republican members of Congress directly, bringing them possibly to the White House to take them off the petition,” Garcia said.

The House Oversight Committee has launched its own investigation into the Epstein files, issuing multiple subpoenas and releasing batches of documents from the DOJ and the Epstein estate.

Democrats on the committee released emails from Epstein about Trump, just hours before Grijalva was sworn in, in which the disgraced financier claimed that the president “spent hours at my house” and “of course he knew about the girls.”

“What we think is most important is that all the speculation about what happened or what may not have happened could end right now if Donald Trump releases the Epstein files,” Garcia told the Washington Examiner following the release of the emails.

CNN reported that Attorney General Pam Bondi, Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, and FBI Director Kash Patel were among the officials who attended the meeting with Boebert.

The Democrats released email correspondence between Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, as well as author Michael Wolff, on Wednesday morning.

In a private email with Maxwell, who is serving a 20-year sentence after being convicted of conspiring in Epstein’s sex trafficking ring, Epstein allegedly said the “dog that hasn’t barked is trump … [victim name] spent hours at my house with him, he has never once been mentioned. police chief. etc.”

Maxwell allegedly responded, “I have been thinking about that.”

In another email, Epstein allegedly told Wolff, who has written several books about Trump, that “of course he knew about the girls as he asked ghislaine to stop.”

In another email exchange between Wolff and Epstein, the author allegedly told the financier he heard CNN was “planning to ask Trump tonight about his relationship with you–either on air or in scrum afterwards.”

Epstein allegedly responded, “If we were able to craft an answer for him, what do you think it should be?”

Wolff allegedly said he thought Epstein should let Trump “hang himself.”

“If he says he hasn’t been on the plane or to the house, then that gives you a valuable PR and political currency,” Wolff said, according to the released email. “You can hang him in a way that potentially generates a positive benefit for you, or, if it really looks like he could win, you could save him, generating a debt.”

“Of course, it is possible that, when asked, he’ll say Jeffrey is a great guy and has gotten a raw deal and is a victim of political correctness, which is to be outlawed in a Trump regime,” Wolff allegedly added.

Trump has repeatedly insisted he has committed no wrongdoing and has called the Epstein saga a “hoax,” leading to outrage from some of his fellow congressional Republicans and much of his conservative base.

The emails came from the estate of Epstein, part of 23,000 documents that the committee is reviewing as part of its larger investigation into the Epstein files.

“The more Donald Trump tries to cover up the Epstein files, the more we uncover,” Garcia said. “These latest emails and correspondence raise glaring questions about what else the White House is hiding and the nature of the relationship between Epstein and the President. The Department of Justice must fully release the Epstein files to the public immediately. The Oversight Committee will continue pushing for answers and will not stop until we get justice for the victims.”

However, House Republican leadership and other conservatives have insisted that the petition is not necessary, as the Oversight Committee conducts a thorough investigation into Epstein’s crimes that will release information to the public without harming the victims.

A House GOP Oversight Committee spokesperson told the Washington Examiner that Democrats continue to “carelessly cherry-pick documents to generate clickbait that is not grounded in the facts.”

“The Epstein Estate has produced over 20,000 pages of documents on Thursday, yet Democrats are once again intentionally withholding records that name Democrat officials,” the spokesperson argued. “Democrats should stop politicizing this investigation and focus on delivering transparency, accountability, and justice for the survivors.”

The House GOP Oversight Committee also accused Democrats of covering up names when the Epstein estate did not censor them in the redacted documents provided to the committee in a post on X.

“It’s because this victim, Virginia Giuffre, publicly said that she never witnessed wrongdoing by President Trump,” the committee said. “Democrats are trying to create a fake narrative to slander President Trump. Shame on them.”

Democrats have accused Republicans of wanting to protect Trump and pedophiles, a major argument as the caucus bashed Johnson for weeks for not swearing in Grijalva during the House’s nearly two-month recess during the government shutdown.

Massie has said he will not budge on the petition. However, eyes will be on the three female lawmakers to see whether they will remove their names from the petition to avoid it being brought to the floor for what is likely to be a politically challenging vote for many Republicans.

The White House has been whipping the three signatories to remove their names to no avail.

Mace told the Hill that she will not remove her name from the petition. Greene has been incredibly vocal about releasing all the information regardless of whose names are in the files. Boebert has previously indicated she will not remove her name despite pressure from the White House.

House leadership has said it will not stop the bill from hitting the floor: Majority Whip Tom Emmer (R-MN) told the Washington Examiner he will not break precedent and whip against privileged motions, Johnson said in early October he will not block a floor vote on the bill, and House Rules Committee Chairwoman Virginia Foxx (R-NC) said her panel won’t turn off the petition or seek to jam it in the panel’s deliberations.

The latter, essentially sticking language in a rule to kill a petition, has been a tactic used by Republican leadership before to avoid votes they dislike. Most recently, they used it for Rep. Anna Paulina Luna’s (R-FL) discharge petition on proxy voting for new parents.