Ryan Strips Indicted GOP Lawmaker of Committee Assignments
- Duncan Hunter, an early Trump backer, stripped of assignments
- He allegedly used campaign money for vacations, dental bills
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A Republican congressman from Southern California -- indicted on charges of using hundreds of thousands of dollars in campaign funds for personal expenses -- has been stripped of his committee assignments by the House speaker and urged to resign by the chamber’s top Democrat.
Representative Duncan Hunter, 41, faced the swift, bipartisan rebuke after federal prosecutors on Tuesday unveiled criminal charges against both him and his wife, Margaret, 43. The office of the U.S. Attorney in San Diego, which filed the charges, said the Hunters improperly accessed more than $250,000 in campaign money.