George Santos Expelled From House

The House of Representatives has voted to expel Rep. George Santos (R-NY).

He is just the sixth member of Congress ever to be expelled.

Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) made it official, gaveling in to say there were 311 yeas and the resolution was adopted.

Santos was under fire from the moment he got to Congress for ethics concerns that included blatantly lying on his resume.

CNN’s David Chalian explained the scene as Santos left the chamber:

He walked by himself out of the chamber before the speaker actually gavelled the vote to its conclusion, and got into that car, and drove away, and no longer a member of Congress as he was just moments ago. And you heard the speaker instruct the clerk to notify the governor of New York of the vacancy in this seat.

And, this is now, the first time, as you have said, where you are not dealing with a traitor from the confederacy or dealing with a convicted criminal. This is the first time that somebody has been expelled from Congress that doesn’t fit into one of those categories, which is that notion of precedent that George Santos was raising and some Republicans were raising as an area of concern that it was setting a precedent.

But this is quite astonishing when you think, a year ago when it was first reported by The New York Times and others how much he had lied to the public about who he was, what he was claiming to be, a total and complete fraud.

This is a breaking news story and has been updated.