{"id":1928771,"date":"2023-05-11T08:10:22","date_gmt":"2023-05-11T12:10:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mccarthy-leaves-open-whether-santos-will-be-removed-from-congress-after-charges\/"},"modified":"2023-05-11T08:12:45","modified_gmt":"2023-05-11T12:12:45","slug":"mccarthy-leaves-open-whether-santos-will-be-removed-from-congress-after-charges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mccarthy-leaves-open-whether-santos-will-be-removed-from-congress-after-charges\/","title":{"rendered":"McCarthy doesn&#8217;t confirm if Santos will be ousted from Congress following charges."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/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%2Fmccarthy-leaves-open-whether-santos-will-be-removed-from-congress-after-charges%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=1928771&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--><p>House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) refuses to call for Congressman George Santos (R-N.Y.) to step down from his position in the House of Representatives, despite facing criminal charges from the Biden administration\u2019s Justice Department. During a press conference on May 9, McCarthy stated that he would review the charges against Santos. <\/p>\n<p>Santos, a freshman Congressman, is currently facing federal charges in the Eastern District of New York, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/former-democratic-california-rep-tj-cox-indicted-for-fraud-faces-up-to-55-years-in-prison\/\" title=\"Former Democratic California Rep. TJ Cox Indicted For Fraud, Faces Up To 55 Years In Prison\">including wire fraud<\/a>, money laundering, theft of public funds, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/sidney-powell-is-an-american-legal-giant\/\" title=\"Sidney Powell Is an American Legal Giant\">making false statements<\/a> to the House of Representatives. These charges come after a series of accusations against Santos, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mccarthy-leaves-open-whether-santos-will-be-removed-from-congress-after-charges\/\" title=\"McCarthy doesn't confirm if Santos will be ousted from Congress following charges.\">including violating federal campaign finance law<\/a> during the midterms and making demonstrably false statements. <\/p>\n<p>Despite these allegations, McCarthy granted Santos committee assignments at the start of the 118th Congress. However, Santos soon stepped down from those assignments, and other New York Republicans introduced a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mccarthy-leaves-open-whether-santos-will-be-removed-from-congress-after-reported-charges\/\" title=\"McCarthy Leaves Open Whether Santos Will Be Removed from Congress After Reported Charges\">bill targeting individuals indicted<\/a> for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/breaking-president-trump-gives-pardons-to-73-individuals-and-commutes-another-70-sentences-steve-bannon-is-included\/\" title=\"BREAKING: President Trump Gives Pardons to 73 Individuals and Commutes Another 70 Sentences \u2013 Steve Bannon Is Included\">campaign finance violations<\/a>, inspired by Santos. <\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s clear that Santos has a history of dishonesty and potentially criminal behavior. As a member of Congress, he should be held to the highest standards of integrity and accountability. It remains to be seen whether McCarthy will take action against Santos, but the public deserves transparency and justice in this matter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) would not say that Congressman George Santos (R-N.Y.) must leave the House of Representatives as the latter faces criminal charges from the Biden administration\u2019s Justice Department. \u201cI\u2019ll look at the charges,\u201d McCarthy told reporters on May 9, during a press conference mainly focused on debt ceiling negotiations with President<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":152,"featured_media":1928772,"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":[543],"tags":[4035,12512,4402,7118,3663,6795,12040],"class_list":["post-1928771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-epoch-times","tag-charges","tag-confirm","tag-congress","tag-doesnt","tag-mccarthy","tag-ousted","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\/1928771","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\/152"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1928771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1928771\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1928772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1928771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1928771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1928771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}