A group of House Republicans from New York are introducing a resolution to expel Rep. George Santos, R-N.Y., from Congress.
“Today, I’ll be introducing an expulsion resolution to rid the People’s House of fraudster George Santos,” Rep. Anthony D’Esposito, R-N.Y., said in a post on the social media platform X.
He said the resolution will be co-sponsored by fellow New York House Republicans Nick LaLota, Mike Lawler, Marc Molinaro, Nick Langworthy and Brandon Williams.
Booting Santos would require a two-thirds vote of the entire House.
The move comes a day after federal prosecutors issued Santos a 23-count superseding indictment alleging he committed identity theft, fraud and other offenses. Santos has said he plans on fighting the charges and pleaded not guilty to the charges in the original 13-count indictment earlier this year.
Imagine being such a piece of shit that even the Republicans don’t want to associate with you.
It’s because he fucked with their money…
He made up like 500k in donations so that the Republican party would “match” and they gave him 250k.
So now the other Republicans who could have gotten that money are pissed
You have to break 50 indictments to be considered
presidentialcrownable
FTFY
Don’t think there’s a word for the appointment of a dictator.
I don’t really get it. Santos is the most Republican to have every Republicaned. He’s a lying, grifting, fraudster who knows practically nothing about anything and only got where he was by lying his way in and betraying the trust of everyone who backed him. He’s so unhinged he doesn’t even know where his lies stopped.
He’s like the American conservative mascot. I’m surprised they don’t name him Speaker.
Plot twist: the Republicans will now fail to elect a speaker so the resolution will never be read.
Yeah, they’ve given George Santos a perverse incentive to vote against any viable speaker candidate to prevent this measure from coming to the floor. Or he could make his vote contingent on the new speaker not bringing it.
Can’t he also bring up a vote to unseat any speaker? The Gift That Keeps Giving.
That was the deal with McCarthy, not clear if that’s the deal that anyone else will have
I was gonna say…can they even do that without a Speaker?
So this is just performance, it seems, with no ability or intention of following through.
I’m not sure; will have to look that up. But yeah, I hope she either laughed right in McHenry’s face or at least replied on her official letterhead “Lol, no.”
It’s New York GOP, not the entire party. The New Yorkers need to have some cover, but know that the rest of the party will kill the resolution.
Political theater.
But it takes 2/3 to remove him. No way there are enough Republicans with morals and integrity for that to happen.
It is the whole House. Right now, there are 221 Republicans and 212 Democrats. So 289 votes are needed to expel Santos. You can safely assume that all Democrats will vote to expel so the Republicans will need to come up with 77 more votes. This is a little over half. If half of all Republicans can’t agree on this, it will fail. A little over a third of Republicans would need to vote for this.
Edit: 289 votes are needed, not 325.
How did you get 325? There are 435 members normally (433 assuming your numbers are right with vacancies, which seems believable.) 2/3 of 435 is 290.
So you’d only need ~78 republicans with morals. Still wouldn’t happen, but weirder things have.
the social media platform X
It’s still funny that people have to say stuff like this now instead of just “Twitter”.
