Speaker Johnson announces that Matt Gaetz has resigned from Congress
Matt Gaetz has already resigned from congress after President-elect Trump selected him for attorney general, according to House Speaker Mike Johnson .in his incoming administration – and reportedly before a Friday vote on whether to release a House Ethics Committee report related to allegations of
Johnson made no mention of the ethics probe during his remarks to reporters and signaled that Gaetz’s abrupt resignation was strictly related to getting a Republican replacement in the House as soon as possible. “If we start the clock now, if you do the math, we may be able to fill that seat as early as Jan. 3, when we take the new oath of office for the new Congress,” Johnson explained. “So, Matt has done us a great service by making that decision as he did on the fly.Trump’s announcement earlier in the day that he had picked Gaetz to be his top Justice Department official surprised many and repulsed some in Congress.
Trump, 78, referred to Gaetz as a “deeply gifted and tenacious attorney” who “distinguished himself in Congress through his focus on achieving desperately needed reform at the Department of Justice” in his announcement Wednesday.
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