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.
Notice how this was conveniently done at a time when the House is shut down and there’s zero chance that this is actually taken up.
They have to find a speaker first. Then we have issues like Ukraine and Israel to deal with. And then we’re right up at the time where the GOP will manufacture another debt ceiling “crisis”. Then maybe they’ll find time to expel one of their own mem…oh I can’t even finish typing that sentence. You know they’ll just never mention it again.
This is just virtue signaling. They don’t want to expel Santos because they need his vote. They just want to look like they actually care about corruption in their own party. So they’re doing this now, knowing full well that there’s almost no chance anything actually comes out of it.
(And yes, I guarantee you it’s why Schumer hasn’t taken a hard line on Menendez. He needs his vote in the Senate just as badly.)
I bet Menendez is out before Santos.
Since 1789 the Senate has expelled only 15 members. Of that number, 14 were expelled during the Civil War for supporting the Confederacy.
Is anyone else weirded out by the phrasing “the People’s House”? It seems strangely out of place and it’s worded like it’s some kind of official title.
Of course, it is the Peoples house. It just depends on the definition of “people”, and it looks like this does not include the general populace. More like “People like us” or something.
Can they do this without having a speaker?
Do Gaetz next.
How does it work? If there were a third party in the congrees, would the two biggest parties just be able to expel all members from that party from house since they can easily get 2/3 majority?
the social media platform X
It’s still funny that people have to say stuff like this now instead of just “Twitter”.
