House to Vote on George Santos Expulsion on Friday

1 Dec 2023

The New York Times

House to Vote on George Santos Expulsion on Friday

The House debate on Thursday boiled down to a central question: Should Mr. Santos’s series of lies and alleged crimes outweigh historical precedents?

George Santos’s Troubles

House Expulsion Debate
Ethics Committee Report
How Santos Spent Donors’ Money
An Unexpected Call
Lies, Charges and Questions

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In Spirited Debate, George Santos Dares House Colleagues to Expel Him

The House debate on Thursday boiled down to a central question: Should Mr. Santos’s series of lies and alleged crimes outweigh historical precedents?

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George Santos, wearing a plaid blazer and surrounded by cameras at dusk. — Representative George Santos faces an expulsion vote in the House on Friday.Credit...Haiyun Jiang for The New York Times

Michael Gold and

Nov. 30, 2023

As the House of Representatives opened the floor on Thursday to debate the fate of George Santos, Republican of New York, the arguments over whether to expel him took an immediate and indecorous turn.

Mr. Santos’s use of Botox was invoked several times, even by those defending him. His detractors pointed to falsified ties to the Holocaust and to his claims, contradicted by paperwork, that his mother was at the World Trade Center on Sept. 11. The final speaker calling to expel Mr. Santos concluded with the briefest of remarks: “You, sir, are a crook.”

The dramatic floor debate was, perhaps, a fitting culmination to a political career that has been defined by spectacle, scandal and lies.

All that could come to an end on Friday, when the House is scheduled to vote on a resolution to expel Mr. Santos, 35, following the release of a damning and detailed report from the House Ethics Committee that found “substantial evidence” that he had violated federal law.

Lies, Charges and Questions Remaining in the George Santos Scandal

George Santos has told so many stories they can be hard to keep straight. We cataloged them, including major questions about his personal finances and his campaign fund-raising and spending.

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