Rep. Susan Wild, the top Democrat on the House Ethics Committee, said the panel’s report on former Rep. Matt Gaetz should be made public, seeming to discount claims that doing so would be an unusual step.
President-elect Donald Trump tapped Gaetz to become the next attorney general last week, an immediately controversial choice considering the Justice Department investigated him on allegations of sex trafficking and House lawmakers had been looking into claims of sexual misconduct and drug use. The House panel was set to vote on releasing its findings last week, but after Trump announced he would nominate the Florida Republican, Gaetz resigned from Congress, effectively shuttering the investigation.
Senators from both parties have called for the findings to be released anyway as they prepare for confirmation hearings on Trump’s nominees.
“It should certainly be released to the Senate, and I think it should be released to the public, as we have done with many other investigative…
