Speaker Mike Johnson says Matt Gaetz has already resigned from Congress | LiveNOW from FOX

House GOP leaders addressed the media after holding their votes for leadership positions within the conference.

During the press conference, Speaker Mike Johnson announced that Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) had already resigned from Congress after being tapped by President-elect Donald Trump to be his new Attorney General.

""He issued his resignation letter effective immediately... That caught us by surprise a little bit. But I asked him what the reasoning was? And he said, well, you can't have too many absences. So under Florida State law, there's about an 8 week period to select and fill in a vacancy. And so by doing so today... I've already placed a call to Governor DeSantis in Florida and said, let's start the clock," shared Speaker Johnson.

"If we start the clock now, if you do the math, we may be able to fill that seat as early as January 3rd when we take the new oath of office for the new Congress," added Johnson.