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Top Republicans successful Nassau County, New York, called connected GOP Rep. George Santos to instantly resign Wednesday for fabricating large details of his resume, blasting the freshman lawmaker for moving a "campaign of deceit and lies."

"He's disgraced the House of Representatives and we bash not see him 1 of our congresspeople," Nassau County Republican Party Chairman Joseph Cairo said of Santos astatine a property conference.

Cairo's searing remarks were the archetypal successful a parade of much than a twelve Republican officials from Santos' area, each of whom excoriated Santos' lies and urged him to measurement down.

"He's a nationalist joke, he's an planetary joke, but this joke's gotta go," said Town of Hempstead Supervisor Don Clavin.

The latest stroke to Santos came arsenic the embattled freshman congressman, who was sworn into bureau aboriginal Saturday morning, has admitted making up cardinal elements of his idiosyncratic life, and is present nether scrutiny by national and section lawmakers.

Santos has been caught embellishing and, astatine times, outright lying, astir his past, including his claims that helium worked connected Wall Street.

Santos has apologized to anyone "disappointed by resume embellishments," but helium vehemently denies committing immoderate crimes.

Cairo has antecedently said that Santos has "broken the nationalist spot by making superior misstatements regarding his background, acquisition and education, among different issues." As a subordinate of Congress, Santos represents parts of Queens and Nassau County, a portion of Long Island successful New York. House Republican enactment person been quiescent regarding Santos since he's been sworn into Congress.

"Obviously, he's addressed immoderate of the concerns that we've had. In New York, they're having a batch of interior conversations too. But astatine the extremity of the day, you know, helium was seated, cipher objected to him being seated," House Republican Majority Leader Steve Scalise, R-La., told CNBC connected Wednesday aft being asked whether Santos volition service his afloat two-year term.

Santos has said that each he's blameworthy of is embellishing his resume and has committed nary crimes.

The lies and embellishments helium told during the predetermination person besides led to scrutiny from prosecutors successful the Eastern District of New York who are examining Santos' finances, including imaginable irregularities involving fiscal disclosures and an implicit $700,000 indebtedness Santos made to his run portion helium was moving for Congress during the 2022 midterms, according to NBC News.

The Campaign Legal Center, a nonpartisan run concern watchdog, filed an morals ailment with the Federal Election Commission against Santos connected Monday for allegedly violating run concern laws. Santos told reporters that he's done thing unethical.

Santos' fundraising efforts during his palmy 2022 tally was besides based, successful part, connected immoderate of the mendacious claims he's made astir his past. He would suggest to donors that helium was Jewish erstwhile helium was not and falsely told radical helium worked astatine Wall Street banks that don't person immoderate grounds of his employment. A Santos run staffer impersonated arsenic Kevin McCarthy's main of unit successful bid to rise wealth for the campaign, CNBC and The Washington Times reported.