The House Ethics Committee on Wednesday split along partisan lines on releasing a potentially damaging report about Rep. Matt Gaetz, Donald Trump’s pick to head up the Department of Justice.
After a two-hour meeting, Committee Chair Michael Guest told reporters there was no agreement to make the report public. And while Guest would not say if committee members even took a vote on whether to release it, the top Democrat on the committee, Rep. Susan Wild, told reporters the committee did vote on that question — it’s just that the effort failed along partisan lines, with Democrats voting to release the investigation and Republicans voting to keep the report concealed.
But according to two sources, the committee agreed to finish the report, which apparently still hasn’t been completed.