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The House Ethics Committee voted against releasing its report on Matt Gaetz after multiple rounds of votes Wednesday, a source familiar with its meeting told ABC News.

The source said Republicans all voted against its release.

The committee voted not to release the draft report on Wednesday but to complete it and meet again in December, sources said.

-ABC News' Rachel Scott and Will Steakin

House Ethics Committee Chairman Michael Guest told reporters that "there was not an agreement to release" the Gaetz report while leaving the committee meeting room Wednesday.

Guest would not reveal to reporters what occurred during the meeting, including whether there was a vote, but only reiterated, "There was not an agreement by the committee to release the report."

-ABC News' John Parkinson, Chris Boccia, Jay O'Brien and Lauren Peller

Democratic Rep. Sean Casten of Illinois said he is planning to introduce a privileged resolution Wednesday afternoon to force a vote on requiring the House Ethics Committee to release its Gaetz report.

Casten said if the House Ethics Committee chooses not to release the report, he will introduce a privileged resolution "to require a vote by the full House of Representatives on the release of the Gaetz report."

"The allegations against Matt Gaetz are serious. They are credible. The House Ethics Committee has spent years conducting a thorough investigation to get to the bottom of it," Casten said in a statement. "This information must be made available for the Senate to provide its constitutionally required advice and consent."

Once the resolution is introduced, the House will have to take it up within two legislative days. GOP leadership will decide when it's brought up for a vote.

The House Ethics Committee wrapped its meeting moments ago, during which it was expected to vote on whether to release the report.

-ABC News' Lauren Peller

Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy -- who will lead what Trump's calling a new "Department of Government Efficiency" -- outlined their plans for sweeping regulations cuts and "mass headcount reductions across the federal bureaucracy" in a Wall Street Journal op-ed published Wednesday.

In the piece, titled "The DOGE Plan to Reform Government," they noted how they believe recent U.S. Supreme Court rulings give Trump constitutional authority to roll back many regulations via executive order.

They laid out scenarios for dramatically shrinking the federal workforce through various means including early retirement, voluntary severance, "large-scale firings" and requiring workers to come to the office five days a week which they said "would result in a wave of voluntary terminations that we welcome."

Citing areas of waste to be cut, Musk and Ramaswamy singled out funding for PBS, Planned Parenthood and "grants to international organizations."

"We will serve as outside volunteers, not federal officials or employees," they wrote. "Unlike government commissions or advisory committees, we won’t just write reports or cut ribbons. We’ll cut costs."

-ABC News' Claire Brinberg