House Speaker Kevin McCarthy is doubling down on his backing of Republican Rep. George Santos, even as other Republican officials call for Santos’s resignation.
. “I do not have the power simply because if I disagree with somebody or what they have said that I remove them from elected office.”
“If for some way when we go through [the] Ethics [Committee] that he has broken the law, then we will remove him, but it’s not my role,” McCarthy continued. “I believe in the rule of law. A person’s innocent until proven guilty.
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