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After Rep.-elect George Santos (R-NY) admitted to lying to voters astir his acquisition and nonrecreational resume, Rep. Ted Lieu (D-CA) called for an expulsion ballot if Santos is seated successful the House.
Rep. Lieu tweeted:
GOP Congressman-elect George Santos, who has present admitted his whopping lies, should resign. If helium does not, past @GOPLeader should telephone for a ballot to expel @Santos4Congress. https://t.co/WutPzhaTEX
— Ted Lieu (@tedlieu) December 27, 2022
Santos defrauded the voters of his district, and if Democrats were inactive successful complaint of the House, helium would not beryllium seated.
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There is nary mode that Republicans are going to ballot to expel Santos due to the fact that they person lone a 4-seat majority. Since Santos has been accused of imaginable transgression activity, a much apt result is that helium is criminally charged and has to resign.
Should Santos debar transgression charges, helium volition service his 1 word successful the House and apt get bounced by the voters successful his territory successful 2024. George Santos’s legislature vocation is apt implicit earlier it started.
If the House bulk had an integrity oregon respect for the instauration astatine all, it Republicans would clasp an expulsion ballot close aft George Santos was seated.
Since this is the bulk that Kevin McCarthy wants to lead, and McCarthy needs each ballot helium tin get his mitts connected to beryllium elected speaker, helium volition enactment quiescent connected Santos, and successful return, George Santos volition formed his ballot for Kevin McCarthy to beryllium the adjacent Speaker of the House.
The House nether the enactment of the incoming Republican bulk is corrupt and volition bash thing to halt a fraudster from being seated successful Congress.
George Santos volition beryllium the poster lad for Democratic efforts to instrumentality backmost the House successful 2024.
Jason is the managing editor. He is besides a White House Press Pool and a Congressional analogous for PoliticusUSA. Jason has a Bachelor’s Degree successful Political Science. His postgraduate enactment focused connected nationalist policy, with a specialization successful societal betterment movements.
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