"I’ve listened as my colleagues across the aisle insert cruel, dangerous anti-LGBTQI+ provisions into our funding bills"
Santos & an unnamed "political consultant" illegally redirected campaign donations to cover personal expenses like “luxury designer clothing”
The inquiry will evaluate whether the embattled congressman's required financial disclosures as a candidate contained illegal omissions
Priorities for Balint include the Equality Act, a bill that would prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation & gender identity
"We cannot wait for him to be indicted or for an ethics investigations- neither would address things he has already admitted to lying about"
“I think it’s reprehensible that the Senator would say such a thing to me in the demeaning way,” Santos said. “It wasn’t very Mormon of him”
"If ethics finds something, we’ll take action,' McCarthy said. "Right now we’re not allowing him to be on committees"
Republican Rep. George Santos faces yet another law enforcement probe, this time over allegations he ran a GoFundMe scam in 2016
The Justice Dept asked the Federal Election Commission to yield to the federal prosecutors probing Santos's campaign finance activity
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, along with the rest of Republican leadership in the chamber, has addressed the controversies minimally
