Vance tells senators Trump ‘deserves’ loyal cabinet; House ethics committee to vote on releasing Matt Gaetz report: Live updates

Transgender people will be barred from using bathrooms and other single-sex facilities at the U.S. Capitol and associated offices that correspond with their gender identity, House Speaker Mike Johnson announced on Wednesday.

He said in a statement such facilities will instead be “reserved for individuals of that biological sex.”

South Carolina Rep Nancy Mace claims she is getting death threats over introducing a bill that would ban transgender women from using women’s restrooms on Capitol Hill

On Monday, Mace introduced a resolution that prohibits House Representatives and their staff from “using single-sex facilities other than those corresponding to their biological sex.” The move comes just two weeks after Sarah McBride became the first transgender member of Congress after winning a House seat in Delaware.

Now, the South Carolina Republican says she is the target of death threats.

Kelly Rissman has the story.

Several prominent Democrats have slammed the Harris campaign’s decision to stay silent over Donald Trump’s transgender attack ads, including one who described the inaction as “malpractice.”

Rhian Lubin has the story.

The Hill’s Mychael Schnell reports that a source told her last week that the Ethics Committee was supported to vote on releasing the report on Matt Gaetz in late July, but the House departed for recess before that preventing the vote.

She notes that for Chairman Michael Guest to say the report isn’t finished is “striking”.

House Ethics Committee Chairman Michael Guest told reporters that the committee’s report on former Rep. Matt Gaetz is NOT done and that he has “reservations about releasing unfinished work product.”

Top Democratic Rep Susan Wild reiterated the Gaetz report should be released to the public: “I have previously stated I think the report should be released. That’s my entire comment.”

Donald Trump never looks happier than when he’s selling something.

Donald Trump has announced he’s going to nominate former Florida Republican congressman Matt Gaetz to serve as attorney general.

In a statement, the president-elect praised Gaetz, 42, who has frequently defended Trump and criticized the various criminal and congressional probes against the Republican.

“On the House Judiciary Committee, which performs oversight of DOJ, Matt played a key role in defeating the Russia, Russia, Russia Hoax, and exposing alarming and systemic Government Corruption and Weaponization,” Trump wrote on Wednesday, calling Gaetz a “Champion for the Constitution and the Rule of Law.”

Gaetz has faced multiple allegations of wrongdoing of his own, including a federal sex trafficking probe that ended without charges against him and a House ethics inquiry.

Here’s what you need to know about Gaetz, who was once dubbed the “Trumpiest Congressman” in Washington:

Donald Trump does not appear happy with opposition to some of his choices for his cabinet and other senior positions in his upcoming administration.

The president-elect wrote on Truth Social:

This is what the Radical Left Lunatics do to people. They dirty them up, they destroy them, and then they spit them out. They are trying that right now with some great American Patriots who are only trying to fix the mess that the Democrats have made of our Country. WE WILL WIN!!! MAGA