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Democratic lawmakers are calling for Rep.-elect George Santos to resign from the House spot helium won successful November, aft the Long Island Republican admitted to “résumé embellishment” — dialing up the unit connected GOP enactment to respond.
“GOP Congressman-elect George Santos, who has present admitted his whopping lies, should resign,” tweeted Rep. Ted Lieu (D-Calif.), urging Republican House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy to telephone a ballot to expel Santos if helium does not quit.
Rep. Joaquin Castro (D-Tex.) said that if Santos takes his caller seat, it would acceptable a precedent encouraging others to question nationalist bureau by falsifying their credentials, portion Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.) accused Santos of “defrauding the voters of Long Island astir his ENTIRE resume.”
McCarthy (R-Calif.) has truthful acold not responded to allegations that Santos misled voters astir cardinal details of his biography, which were archetypal reported successful a New York Times story past week.
Now that Santos has apologized “if I disappointed anyone by résumé embellishment” — and acknowledged publically connected Monday that helium did not graduate from assemblage oregon enactment astatine definite companies that had been listed successful his biography — questions stay astir what enactment if immoderate the incoming House bulk person volition take. Santos’s triumph helped Republicans unafraid a constrictive bulk successful the adjacent term.
Democrats person called for a House morals probe since the Times report, and the New York lawyer general’s bureau has said it was “looking into a fig of issues” surrounding Santos.
The representative-elect has remained defiant astir his future: In an interrogation with New York’s WABC radio, helium said, “I volition beryllium sworn in. I volition instrumentality office.”
In his admissions connected Monday night, Santos sought to explicate his claims by saying that “a batch of radical overstate successful their résumés,” and helium downplayed the interaction of his actions. He did concisely code however his wealthiness has skyrocketed successful caller years, allowing him to lend hundreds of thousands of dollars to his campaign.
Santos told City and State NY that aft antithetic jobs, helium opened his ain steadfast and “it conscionable worked due to the fact that I had the relationships and I started making a batch of money. And I fundamentally started gathering wealth.”
“I decided I’d put successful my contention for Congress,” helium added. “There’s thing incorrect with that.”
The Times report raised questions astir whether Santos had fabricated overmuch of his biography and noted that Santos claimed helium had worked for Goldman Sachs and Citigroup. Spokesmen for the 2 companies confirmed to The Washington Post that they had nary grounds of his employment. Santos said successful the vigor interrogation Monday that the connection successful his résumé stated helium had “worked ‘for,’ not ‘on’ oregon ‘at’ oregon ‘in.’”
He said that helium learned a acquisition — but that it doesn’t mean “I’m immoderate fictional character.”
Santos besides said successful an interview with the New York Post that, contrary to his biography that claimed helium was a Baruch College graduate, helium had not graduated “from immoderate instauration of higher learning.”
“We’ve seen radical fudge their resume but this is full fabrication,” Castro tweeted, arguing that the congressman-elect should beryllium “investigated by authorities.”
Michael Kranish, Azi Paybarah and Hannah Knowles contributed to this report.
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