BREAKING: Rep George Santos has temporarily avoided an expulsion from his seat in Congress after the House voted to refer the matter to the Ethics Committee for a thorough investigation.
The House voted 221-204 to transfer the resolution to the Ethics Committee, dealing a blow to Democrats who sought to expel Santos from the House immediately. To do so, Democrats would’ve needed at least 77 Republicans to vote in favor of his expulsion to overcome the two-thirds majority threshold needed to pass the measure — a margin of support that is unlikely to come by in the GOP-led chamber.
Garcia revived those efforts after Santos was criminally indicted by the Justice Department last week, forcing Republicans to follow through with threats to punish the freshman lawmaker for his alleged misconduct or to defend their slim majority. “The man is delusional,”Molinaro told the Washington Examiner last week. “I said it in December. I said it in January. I'll say it again. He should not be a member of Congress.”
The move to delay a vote on Santos’s expulsion could be weaponized by Democrats in the coming weeks, especially against vulnerable Republicans running in districts that President Joe Biden won in 2020.
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