US President Donald Trump says he will sign a bill to force the release of the "Epstein files" if the legislation gets through Congress.
It is another flip by the US president, who fiercely opposed the bill until the weekend, after it became clear it had the numbers to pass the House of Representatives.
The bill – which would instruct the Department of Justice to release all unclassified documents relating to late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein – now looks set to sail through the House this week.
It would then require the support of the Republican-controlled Senate before going to Mr Trump to be signed into law.
Asked on Monday, local time, if he would sign the bill, Mr Trump said: "Sure I would."
"I would let the Senate look at it. Let anybody look at it. But don't talk about it too much because honestly, I don't want it taking away from us," he said.
"It's really a Democrat problem. The Democrats were Epstein's friends, all of them. And it's a hoax, the whole thing is a hoax, and I don't want it taking away from, really, the greatness of what the Republican Party has accomplished over the last period of time."
House Speaker Mike Johnson told US media the vote would take place on Tuesday afternoon, local time.
The bill was introduced by Republican Thomas Massie, a critic of Mr Trump's, and Democrat Ro Khanna in July.
Three Republican women subsequently backed it, giving it the numbers it needed to pass the House.
Those women — Marjorie Taylor Greene, Nancy Mace and Lauren Boebert — last week joined Democrats to sign a petition to force the vote.
After the White House failed to persuade any of the Republicans to reverse course, Mr Trump used social media to say he now supported Republicans voting for it.
But it led to a public feud between Mr Trump and Ms Greene, previously one of his most prominent backers in Congress. Mr Trump called Ms Greene "wacky" and a "traitor". She said his public attacks on her were putting her in physical danger.
The issue was pushed back into the public spotlight last week after the release of .
