George Santos Was Finally Too Much for Republicans
The New York representative’s brief congressional career was finished by a decisive vote to expel him. He was a performer until the end.
So long, George Santos, we hardly knew ye—and that was pretty much the problem.
This morning, House members evicted one of their own for only the sixth time in history, terminating the congressional career of the Long Island Republican barely a year after he won election on a campaign of lies and alleged fraud. The vote to expel Santos was 311–114, easily clearing the two-thirds threshold needed to pass. As with most other consequential votes this year, a unified Democratic caucus carried the resolution along with a divided GOP, whose members struggled with the decision of whether to trim their already narrow majority by kicking Santos out of Congress. A slim majority
