Rep. Don Bacon (R-NE) said Friday that lawmakers could force another vote to release former Rep. Matt Gaetz’s (R-FL) Ethics report if President-elect Trump brings him into a White House job, Axios reports.
Bacon’s comments come a day after the House voted to block a resolution that would have forced the House Ethics Committee to make the report public.
Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH), chair of the House Judiciary Committee, sent a letter Thursday to federal prosecutors in California implying that his committee will dig into whether the prosecution of former Rep. Jeff Fortenberry (R-NE) was politically motivated, the Nebraska Examiner reports.
The letter seeks answers to allegations by Fortenberry’s lawyers that authorities pursued him for political reasons when they charged him with lying to FBI agents about his knowledge of illegal foreign contributions to his campaign in 2016.
Marc Caputo: “There are few political acts that Trump values more than defiance in the face of media scrutiny. And Hegseht’s charge on Thursday—clearly directed at an audience in Mar-a-Lago—bought him both time and goodwill. After rampant speculation that he could soon drop his nomination, there is little expectation of that now.
“This is the biggest deployment of my life, and there won’t be a drop of alcohol on my lips while I’m doing it.”
— Pete Hegseth, pledging to Megan Kelly to not drink alcohol while serving as defense secretary.
“If you want to rub elbows with President-elect Donald Trump and his incoming administration during inaugural celebrations, it’ll cost you — between half a million and $2 million, specifically,” USA Today reports.