The federal government shutdown provided President Donald Trump a weekslong reprieve from major revelations about his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein.

But as Congress looks to reopen the government this week, it’s clear Trump’s Epstein problem hasn’t gone away.

The big news Wednesday is that House Oversight Committee Democrats have released at least three emails obtained from Epstein’s estate that mention Trump. Those emails come amid another huge release of Epstein documents that CNN is reviewing.

In one 2011 email, Epstein describes Trump as the “dog that hasn’t barked.” He writes that someone who Democrats identify as an Epstein victim (but whose name is redacted in the released email) “spent hours at my house with him,” apparently referring to Trump.

Republicans on the committee have since said the redacted victim who supposedly spent time with Trump is Virginia Giuffre, one of Epstein’s most prominent survivors, who died by suicide in April. (Giuffre never implicated Trump in any wrongdoing.)

And in a 2019 email, Epstein appears to reflect on Trump asking Epstein accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell to stop recruiting employees from Mar-a-Lago. In the email, Epstein says of Trump: “of course he knew about the girls as he asked ghislaine to stop.”

And in a 2015 email, Epstein writes to author Michael Wolff about how Trump might handl