Rep. Michael Guest, R-Miss., chair of the House Ethics Committee, said Monday that House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., won’t influence the outcome of releasing the ethics report on former Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., who resigned his seat after taking up President-elect Donald Trump’s offer to head the Department of Justice.

Deliberation on releasing the report comes amid Johnson calling it “a terrible breach of protocol and tradition and the spirit of the rule” because Gaetz is no longer a House member, per The Hill.

According to Politico, Johnson has said he has no authority over the Ethics Committee and is “not telling the Ethics Committee what to do.”

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