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George Santos to step down from House committees amid biography lies - The Washington Post

George Santos to step down from House committees amid biography lies - The Washington Post

George Santos to step down from House committees amid biography lies - The Washington Post
Jan 31, 2023 1 min, 0 secs

Comment on this storyEmbattled Rep. George Santos (R-N.Y.) told House Republicans on Tuesday that he will step down temporarily from his committee assignments amid multiple investigations into his campaign finances after he lied about key aspects of his biography.

The temporary retreat from committees marks Santos’s first major concession after weeks of maintaining a steadfast resistance to any consequences over his fabrications.

More than three-quarters of registered voters in New York’s 3rd Congressional District said he should leave his job, the Newsday-Siena College poll found.

Asked whether she regretted supporting Santos after the news that he had stepped down from committees, Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.) said voters had chosen to elect him.

The move by Santos comes as McCarthy is struggling to secure the GOP votes to kick Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) off the House Foreign Affairs Committee.

McCarthy said he wanted to remove Omar from the committee because of “repeated antisemitic and anti-American remarks,” a reference to her using an antisemitic trope and comparing actions by the United States to those of terrorists groups, which she later clarified by saying, “I was in no way equating terrorist organizations with democratic countries with well-established judicial systems.”

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