George Santos expelled from US House of Representatives in landslide vote
Rep George Santos has been expelled from the House after more than a hundred Republicans joined almost all Democrats in voting to remove him from the chamber.
Mr Santos joins only a handful of lawmakers ever ousted from their role, following a damning 56-page report from the House Ethics Committee which outlined “substantial evidence” that Mr Santos violated federal law.
Leaving the floor in defeat, Mr Santos said, “They just set new dangerous precedent for themselves”.
A two-thirds majority was needed to expel Mr Santos – 311 members backed his ouster while 114 voted against it and two members voted present. The entire GOP leadership opposed the removal.
Despite saying in an interview he would go “graciously”, Mr Santos took to X late on Friday night and began laying out his revenge on New York area members of the House who voted to expel him.
Over the weekend, the disgraced former congressman was mercilessly parodied on Saturday Night Live with Bowen Yang playing him at a news conference on the steps of the Capitol before singing a lament to the tune of “Candle in the Wind”.
