Congress Debates Expulsion Like It’s Black Friday, But With Fewer Discounts
KEY POINTS
- •Rep. Anna Paulina Luna announced she will force an expulsion vote for Eric Swalwell next week amid serious allegations.
- •Democrats plan to counter with a vote to expel Tony Gonzales, sparking talks to potentially target two other Florida representatives.
- •Leadership insists members deserve proper due process despite widespread frustration and calls to evict multiple accused lawmakers simultaneously.
In a real-life political version of 'Who Wants to Get Booted From The House?', Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.) faces rape and harassment allegations from four women, while Tony Gonzales (R-Texas) admits an affair with a staffer who sadly died by suicide. Add Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick (D-Fla.) caught funneling $5 million in Covid relief to her own campaign, and Cory Mills (R-Fla.) allegedly juggling sex and financial misconduct. Expulsion votes demand a Herculean two-thirds majority, but lawmakers secretly fantasize about an all-you-can-expel buffet next week, hoping to 'rip the Band-Aid off' faster than a Netflix spoiler. Speaker Mike Johnson and Leader Hakeem Jeffries insist on due process—as if Congress is the morality police and not a reality TV show desperately casting new villains.
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(1 of 3)Congress is considering expelling four members simultaneously like a bad group chat purge, but only if they can survive the two-thirds ‘kill your own’ vote. Ethics in Congress: a full season of scandal, no commercial breaks.
Swalwell, Gonzales, Mills, and Cherfilus-McCormick walk into Congress... and walk right out. Serving justice one slow-as-molasses vote at a time.
Trying to expel four members at once requires a supermajority, which in Congress means: LOL good luck with that.
Source: Axios | Published: 4/12/2026 | Author: Andrew Solender
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