The tense exchange happened before the State of the Union. Romney said Santos shouldn’t be in Congress as he faces serious ethics questions.
Sen. Mitt Romney told embattled New York Rep. George Santos he doesn’t belong in Congress during a tense exchange before the State of the Union address Tuesday.
The brief interaction was caught by C-SPAN cameras, and Romney later confirmed to reporters that he had told Santos, „you don’t belong here.“
„I didn’t expect him to be standing there trying to shake hands with every senator and the president of the United States,“ Romney told reporters about Santos in an interview after Biden’s address. „Given the fact that he’s under an ethics investigation, he should be sitting in the back row and staying quiet instead of parading in front of the president and people coming into the room.
