Republicans and Democrats who had been pressing for the disclosure accused officials of failing to comply with a law that requires all material to be released.
Senator Chuck Schumer, the minority leader, said, “Simply releasing a mountain of blacked out pages violates the spirit of transparency and the letter of the law.”
Todd Blanche, the deputy attorney general, said the Justice Department would not release all of its files relating to Jeffrey Epstein by Friday, the congressionally mandated deadline.
The top Democrat on the Oversight Committee, Representative Robert Garcia has brought aggressive tactics and reality-show flair to investigating Jeffrey Epstein’s ties to President Trump.
Mr. Garcia, 48, is a former mayor of Long Beach, Calif., who has been in Congress fewer than three years. He has been leading Democrats on the Oversight Committee, the House’s top investigative panel, for almost six months.