House’s McCarthy Says Santos Can Stay Despite Calls for Resignation
- New York Republican officials say Santos ‘disgraced the House’
- Embattled representative says he won’t resign House seat
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House Speaker Kevin McCarthy said embattled New York Republican George Santos deserves to remain in Congress despite local GOP officials’ demands that he resign after winning election on “deceit, lies and fabrications.”
“It’s the voters who made that decision, and he has to answer to the voters,” McCarthy said Wednesday, hours after Nassau County Republican Party Chairman Joseph Cairo Jr. said Santos “disgraced the House of Representatives.”