{"id":2547,"date":"2023-06-02T12:11:13","date_gmt":"2023-06-02T12:11:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/latestnews.top\/2023\/06\/02\/gop-rep-george-santos-says-congress-is-not-about-his-personal-life-just-after-being\/"},"modified":"2023-06-02T12:11:13","modified_gmt":"2023-06-02T12:11:13","slug":"gop-rep-george-santos-says-congress-is-not-about-his-personal-life-just-after-being","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/latestnews.top\/gop-rep-george-santos-says-congress-is-not-about-his-personal-life-just-after-being\/","title":{"rendered":"GOP Rep. George Santos says Congress is ‘not about his personal life’ just after being"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Rep. George Santos<\/a>, the scandal-ridden Republican<\/a> congressman who was caught lying about significant swaths of his backstory, signaled early on Saturday that he intends to serve out his term representing New York’s 3rd Congressional District.<\/p>\n Santos released a statement shortly after 2am on Saturday after he and the other members of the House of Representatives<\/a> were sworn into the 118th Congress<\/a>, following gridlock over the Speaker’s gavel.<\/p>\n The gay New York Republican has admitted to lying about having worked at Citigroup and Goldman Sachs, as well as the colleges he claimed to have attended. He is also accused of falsely claiming his grandparents were Jewish Holocaust survivors, and was married to a woman until shortly before he filed to run for Congress for the first time in 2020.<\/p>\n Both state and federal investigations have been opened into whether his questionable accounts led to any laws being broken.<\/p>\n But nevertheless, Santos said his work on Capitol Hill is ‘not about [his] personal life’ and called on Americans and fellow lawmakers to ‘put political differences aside.’\u00a0<\/p>\n