House Speaker McCarthy said he doesn’t “see anyway” lying Long Island Rep. George Santos can be given access to America’s most sensitive information.
including graduating from Baruch College and NYU, and working for top investment firms Goldman Sachs and Citigroup. He also made false claims about his personal life, including that he was a “proud American Jew” whose grandparents escaped Nazi persecution in Europe.
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy said he doesn’t “see anyway” Rep. George Santos can be given access to America’s most sensitive information.However, the newly elected congressman had already co-sponsored five bills as of Thursday – including bills to block federal funds to universities that don’t ban TikTok; amending the Constitution to limit the number of terms members of Congress can serve; and impeaching Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas.
McCarthy on Thursday confirmed Santos would go before the Congressional Ethics Committee “if there are concerns,” but stood by keeping the disgraced lawmaker in the chamber despiteSantos admitted to the Post that he had lied during his campaign about mostly everything on his resume.“The voters of his district have elected him. He is seated. He is part of the Republican conference,” McCarthy said. “There are concerns or whatever, so he will go before Ethics.
Rep. Anthony D’Esposito has also called on the 34-year-old to step down, saying in a statement: “It has become clear that Congressman George Santos’ many hurtful lies and mistruths surrounding his history have irreparably broken the trust of the residents he is sworn to serve. For his betrayal of the public’s trust, I call on Congressman George Santos to resign.”Dennis A. Clark
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