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GOP Representative Nick LaLota Vows To Bring Expulsion Resolution Against George Santos Again After First Vote Failed
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11/2/2023
Speaking with the press on Thursday, Rep. Nick Lalota (R-NY) vowed to try and expel Rep. George Santos (R-NY) again after the first vote failed.
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Can I stop you at the pool table now, please?
00:02
Sure.
00:03
Do you think you'll bring up the Santos expulsion resolution again?
00:05
Yes, and I think that'll be likely to be right after the Ethics Committee publishes their
00:10
findings, which we've been told it's going to be on or before November 17th.
00:14
Do you think that there will be more support at that point from Republicans, the two-thirds
00:18
majority?
00:19
Heck yeah.
00:20
A lot of my colleagues I had private conversations with, they wanted to hang their hat on something.
00:24
They wanted to hang their hat on a guilty plea, a guilty finding of a jury or a judge,
00:29
or an Ethics Committee finding.
00:31
So I would expect the number of Republicans to increase from 24, like it was yesterday,
00:36
and I expect the number of Democrat no's to decrease from 31, that was yesterday.
00:40
Why do you think Democrats voted to bail out Santos?
00:43
It's a great question for them, for you to ask them, but I would suspect they love the
00:47
politics of this.
00:48
They love not talking about the border, they love not talking about the budget, they love
00:52
talking about George Santos, and their political priorities are probably misaligned there.
00:56
Can we just ask you one quick question on the Israel bill that's coming to the floor
00:59
later today?
01:00
You have the White House saying that the President would just veto this.
01:03
You have Democrats in the Senate that say they're not going to take this seriously.
01:07
Is this the best way forward?
01:08
I hope they're bluffing.
01:09
I hope that the President wouldn't veto the House's funding towards America's closest
01:14
ally in Israel.
01:15
Those who chant "Death to America" are the same ones who want to wipe Israel off the
01:19
map.
01:20
We have a common enemy.
01:21
We should help Israel defeat that common enemy.
01:23
I hope the President is bluffing or not in his full faculties when he says he would veto
01:27
that bill.
01:28
What about attaching the offsets to it, the IRS offsets the CBO found would actually add
01:33
to the deficit?
01:34
I can get there either way.
01:35
I can either vote them with the offsets or without.
01:36
I think it's paramount that Congress focus on funding Israel.
01:40
Do you believe that that was a political poison pill, essentially, for so many Democrats who
01:44
do want to support it?
01:45
No, it's not a poison pill for me.
01:47
I hope it passes the House.
01:49
Did the Speaker talk about Ukraine funding in there, his plans for that?
01:54
Yeah, it wasn't quite clear.
01:55
I think he's coupling it right now with the southern border.
01:58
There seems to be dissent from members on coupling those issues.
02:01
I think they ought to be brought as independent bills we should talk about and debate Israel
02:05
funding independently.
02:06
I expect there to be 90 percent of the House or so to agree on funding Israel.
02:10
We should have a discussion on Ukraine.
02:12
There seems to be two camps of folks who have Israel funding, the blank check camp, folks
02:18
who can't spend enough there.
02:19
There's another camp who doesn't want to spend one dollar.
02:22
There's a lot of folks in the middle who want some reasonable approaches to it, audits on
02:26
the money, a battle plan from the Secretary of Defense that what is this money going to?
02:30
We certainly don't have the money, but if we're going to shell out billions, tens of
02:33
billions, Congress, the American people should be privy to what the administration's war
02:37
plan is and certainly an auditing of American taxpayer dollars going overseas.
02:42
Just one last question, just to be clear, because it may end up heading that direction
02:45
where the cuts to the IRS budget end up being stripped out of that bill in order to get
02:49
Democratic support, you would still be behind that?
02:51
I think we have to support Israel at all costs.
02:55
It is a matter of their sovereignty, their independence, their religious freedom.
02:59
When we as members of Congress say Israel is our closest ally, we must put our money
03:03
where our mouths are.
03:04
Thank you.
03:05
Thank you so much for stopping.
03:05
Thank you so much for stopping.
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