Rep. George Santos gets House committee seats despite blowback for major lies on resume - Axios

Rep. George Santos (R-N.Y.) leaves the Capitol connected Jan. 12 successful Washington, D.C. Photo: Win McNamee/Getty Images

Embattled Rep. George Santos (R-N.Y.) has secured 2 committee assignments, despite receiving growing blowback for fabricating cardinal details of his inheritance that were cardinal to his campaign, a committee spokesperson confirmed.

Why it matters: Republicans and Democrats have called connected Santos to resign, and the freshman lawmaker faces galore investigations into his fiscal disclosures, run finances, and outstanding legal issues.

Driving the news: Santos connected Tuesday got a spot connected the House Committee connected Small Business, a committee spokesperson confirmed, and a spot connected the House Committee connected Science, Space and Technology, per 3 House Steering Committee members.

Zoom out: McCarthy, balancing a fragile House majority, previously said that Santos would person committee assignments.

• Santos has maintained that helium volition not springiness up his spot successful Congress, contempt nationalist unit to bash so. "I was elected to service the radical of [New York's 3rd District] not the enactment & politicians, I stay committed to doing that," helium tweeted connected Jan. 11.
• "I volition NOT resign!" helium added.

What they're saying: Rep. Roger Williams (R-Texas), seat of the Small Business Committee, told Axios of Santos: "We volition find a mode to marque him adhd worth to [the committee]."

• Williams besides said helium is acrophobic astir Santos' grounds of dishonesty. "What he's said, the things he's done, I don't hold with ... I'm against each that. Nobody agrees [with] each that," helium told Axios.

• But, helium said, Santos has a close to beryllium connected the committee arsenic a duly elected subordinate of Congress. Williams added that helium tin grip keeping Santos successful line: "I employment hundreds of radical close present successful Texas. I've been done everything. This is not thing that I'm caller at."

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