Gaetz, a four-term congressman from Florida’s Panhandle, has little experience as a practicing attorney and has carved out a reputation for himself in both Tallahassee and Washington as a right-wing provocateur who’s highly critical of federal agencies and deeply loyal to Trump.

Republican senators reacted with shock and incredulity to the news that Donald Trump wants Matt Gaetz to be attorney general.

Matt Gaetz's immediate resignation from Congress on Wednesday came just days before a House Ethics Committee was set to vote on releasing its report on Gaetz, according to multiple reports. President-elect Donald Trump named Gaetz as his pick for U.

The House Ethics Committee was set to vote this week on releasing a report about Matt Gaetz (R-Florida), who resigned from Congress on Wednesday after being picked as President-elect Donald Trump’s attorney general,