{"id":1830344,"date":"2023-01-31T12:05:25","date_gmt":"2023-01-31T17:05:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1830344"},"modified":"2023-01-31T12:09:42","modified_gmt":"2023-01-31T17:09:42","slug":"george-santos-to-recuse-himself-from-committee-assignments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/george-santos-to-recuse-himself-from-committee-assignments\/","title":{"rendered":"George Santos to Recuse Himself From Committee Assignments"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fgeorge-santos-to-recuse-himself-from-committee-assignments%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1830344&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/original_santos.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\"   style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p> Beleaguered freshman <a href=\"https:\/\/thepostmillennial.com\/breaking-ny-gop-leaders-call-on-george-santos-to-resign\">New York Congressman<\/a> George Santos told GOP colleagues in a closed meeting on Tuesday that\u00a0he will recuse himself from sitting on committees.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe congressman is reserving his seats on his assigned committees until he has been properly cleared of both campaign and personal financial investigations,\u201d According to Naysa Woolmer, his spokesperson, Naysa Woomer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2023\/01\/31\/rep-george-santos-says-he-wont-serve-on-house-committees-while-investigations-are-ongoing.html\">CNBC<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Santos stated to his party during the meeting: \u201che\u2019s not accepting the committee assignments until things get cleared up,\u201d One GOP lawmaker was present in the room and said that he did so on the basis anonymity.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It is unknown if Santos took the decision to revoke his assignments to committees on his own or was directed by someone else. Kevin McCarthy, House Majority Leader <a href=\"https:\/\/ca.news.yahoo.com\/george-santos-news-congressman-holocaust-095106351.html?guccounter=1&#038;guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&#038;guce_referrer_sig=AQAAALMWqFUCCn2erWfHXj-HaCpX2kDw-CkQ2aCdUqCQeBsHxqNh2aum6P3thNh-lJJyYHLAJIEUTZ4TpDd2BVc4eYpKXWJxkzTAfzL78uKTBQqTwmKzPYNF0EYNgBLoldLCpng1ZAmTFFKyUPgAiJadDuYmSqL2egM4JbZV4ueY-Qh_\">A private meeting was held<\/a> On Monday, however, it was not clear what the two discussed. CNBC did not reach out to McCarthy spokespersons.<\/p>\n<p>Prosecutors are looking into Santos&#8217; personal campaign finance, and lies about his family.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beleaguered freshman New York Congressman George Santos told GOP colleagues in a closed meeting on Tuesday that\u00a0he will recuse himself from sitting on committees. \u201cThe congressman is reserving his seats on his assigned committees until he has been properly cleared of both campaign and personal financial investigations,\u201d According to Naysa Woolmer, his spokesperson, Naysa Woomer &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1830347,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[7403,4384,5811,3782,12040],"class_list":["post-1830344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report","tag-assignments","tag-committee","tag-george","tag-recuse","tag-santos"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1830344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1830344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1830344\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1830347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1830344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1830344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1830344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}