Matt Gaetz’s resignation from the House of Representatives in anticipation of being confirmed as President-elect Donald Trump’s attorney general may not stop the release of a looming ethics report.

Key Senate Republicans are warning that the controversial nomination, which sent shock waves through Washington, is unlikely to sail through their GOP-controlled chamber next year. At least not without first seeing a yet-to-be-published House Ethics Committee report of its investigation into Gaetz over allegations of sex trafficking and sex with a minor.

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