WATCH: GOP senators divided over whether Epstein documents are a distraction or a needed reckoning

However, the February declassification contained mostly information and files that had already been publicly available, and the Justice Department subsequently indicated that no "client list" exists. Since then, a series of events, including a clash between FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino and Attorney General Bondi, have led to mounting pressure on the Trump administration to release more files. 

"This is factual. Epstein trafficked a lot of young women, some of whom were minors. The American people are entitled to know who - if anyone - he trafficked these young women to, besides himself, and why they weren't prosecuted," John Kennedy, R-La., said. 

"Now that's a very simple question that's at the bottom of all of this. The Department of Justice is going to have to answer that question to the satisfaction of the American people."

Kennedy's call for transparency comes after the president described the Epstein situation as a "hoax" while blasting Democrats and other "weaklings" who continue to buy into it. 

"Their new SCAM is what we will forever call the Jeffrey Epstein Hoax, and my PAST supporters have bought into this 'bull----,' hook, line, and sinker," Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform last month amid mounting reports of internal division within the administration over its handling of the Epstein case 

Democrats have suggested Trump could be implicated in the files, but Mullin said that if such a circumstance were true, the information would have been leaked by the Biden administration. 

"Maybe her family knows about this, maybe they don't. I don't know the situation, but we gotta figure out a way to be able to protect those folks that are genuine victims on all this as well as getting out as much information as you possibly can."

For Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, the debate about the Epstein files was not something she was interested in talking about when approached by Fox News Digital.

"I'm going," Collins responded when pressed on the matter outside the Capitol complex.