Attorney General Pam Bondi raised major doubts Wednesday about how much of the Jeffrey Epstein files she will release to the public even after a bill requiring full transparency won lightning-quick, near-unanimous passage in both houses of the usually deeply divided Congress just a day earlier.

Before President Trump had even signed the bill as promised, Bondi dodged reporters’ questions about if she might use a new investigation by Manhattan federal prosecutors as an excuse to keep some documents related to the infamous child sex trafficking scheme under wraps.

“We’re not going to say anything else on that because now it is a pending investigation in the Southern District of New York,” Bondi said, referring to the probe of possible Epstein ties to prominent Democrats that Trump ordered last week.

Trump’s AG insisted she would comply with the law and said any materials falling under the terms of the newly passed law would be released within a month.

But Bondi refused to elaborate about what had changed since she announced last summer that the feds had no evidence that could lead to charges against third parties in the Epstein scandal.

“There is new information. Additional information,” Bondi said.

Manhattan U.S. Attorney Jay Clayton did not return calls for comment.

Clayton was tapped to handle the new Epstein probe after Maurene Comey, the senior SDNY prosecutor who previously handled the case, was abruptly fired. Comey claims she was ousted because her father is former FBI Director James Comey, a prominent Trump critic.

Trump has said he’ll sign the measure requiring the release of the Epstein files after it raced through the House, which voted 427-1 in favor, and the Senate, which rubber-stamped it by unanimous consent.

It wasn’t clear when Trump might act on the bill.

Despite voting for the bill as it was written, House Speaker Mike Johnson said late Tuesday that he was “deeply disappointed” the Senate did not make unspecified tweaks to the bill.

He suggested Trump has misgivings about the measure, although he insisted he wasn’t predicting the president would not sign it.

“We both have concerns about it, so we’ll see,” Johnson said as he left a White House dinner for Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.

Enacting the bill would cap a stunning defeat for Trump, who fought for months against the push to expose more documents after reportedly being told his name appears many times in the files related to the child sex-trafficking case.

Even as Trump backed the bill to release the files, he continued to deride the Epstein scandal a “Democrat hoax” to tarnish his reputation

The bill’s passage marks a victory for Epstein survivors and a small bipartisan group of House lawmakers who last summer launched a long-shot effort to force release of the files.

The lawmakers introduced an unusual petition in July to maneuver around Johnson’s refusal at Trump’s behest to permit an up-or-down vote on the bill.

The effort eventually won the backing of a majority of the 435 House members, including all Democrats and a handful of Republicans, forcing Johnson to call a vote.

That opened a floodgate of support, with Trump himself bowing to overwhelming pressure to agree not to oppose the bill.

In the end, only one lawmaker, Rep. Clay Higgins, R-La., a far right-wing Trump stalwart, voted against it, claiming the measure could set a bad precedent.

Senate Majority Leader John Thune, who had previously been non-committal about even considering the bill, quickly changed his tune and agreed to back the demand by his Democratic counterpart Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., to grant unanimous consent to approve it.

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