House Ethics Committee votes against releasing Matt Gaetz report

The House Ethics Committee won't — at least for now — release its report on former Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.), its chairman said following a two-hour meeting of the panel Wednesday. Why it matters: Gaetz is President-elect Trump's nominee to run the Justice Department as attorney general. Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) publicly opposed the report's release, arguing it would break precedent because Gaetz has left the House. "There was not an...