Defiant Representative George Santos on Thursday said that the House members were \u201cbullying\u201d him as a vote on his expulsion from Congress loomed and warned that if a third effort to remove him were successful, it would lead to the downfall of several other lawmakers down the line.<\/p>\n
At a news conference, Santos added that he would never resign and railed against House Ethics Committee report \u2013 which detailed a litany of fraud and ethics violations allegations against him \u2013 as incomplete and \u201clittered with hyperbole.\u201d<\/p>\n
Standing in front of U.S. Capitol surrounded by scores of cameras and reporters, the New York Republican said, \u201cThe reality of it is it\u2019s all theatre. It\u2019s theater for cameras, it\u2019s theater for the microphones, it\u2019s theaters for the American people at the expense of the American people, because no real work\u2019s getting done.\u201d<\/p>\n
As per the schedule, the House is expected to begin debate over the resolution to expel Santos from Congress. The voting will be held on Friday. The move towards his expulsion comes after Ethics Committee released a scathing report<\/a> of 56 pages.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Defiant Representative George Santos on Thursday said that the House members were \u201cbullying\u201d him as a vote on his expulsion\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":175,"featured_media":16091,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"reading_time":"1 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/175"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16038\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}