New York Rep. George Santos has been expelled from Congress.

The House of Representatives voted overwhelmingly to remove the first-term
lawmaker from office. He is the sixth member of Congress in history to be expelled.

Santos has been facing intense criticism since he was first elected. He faced numerous
accusations that he lied about his resume and background during the campaign
and has been charged with multiple federal crimes.

Santos is currently facing 23 federal charges, including fraud related to COVID
unemployment benefits, misusing campaign funds, and providing false information
on his House disclosure reports. He has pleaded not guilty to the charges.

Despite all the criticism and the federal charges, Santos has maintained his innocence
and refused to resign.

While two previous attempts to oust Santos failed, the final straw for many lawmakers
was a scathing report from the Ethics Committee. The report detailed "substantial
evidence" that Santos allegedly "violated federal criminal laws."

It concluded that Santos "sought to fraudulently exploit every aspect of his House
candidacy for his own personal financial profit" and "knowingly caused his campaign
committee to file false or incomplete reports with the Federal Election Commission."

After the report was released, Santos announced he would not seek reelection.

However, that did not stop lawmakers from filing another resolution to remove him
from office.

The final vote was 311-114.

Now that Santos has been expelled, New York Governor Kathy Hochul must declare
a special election within ten days. The election must take place within 70 to 80 days
of her announcement.

Wall Street Journal columnist Peggy Noonan made the case for Americans
to be thankful for one person in particular this year: Taylor Swift.

"She brings joy, jobs and happy feet everywhere she goes," Noonan wrote in
an op-ed headlined "We Should All Give Thanks for Taylor Swift."

"She’s the best thing happening in America," Noonan wrote.

"Everyone says she’s huge, she’s fabulous, but really it’s bigger than that,"
Noonan, a former speechwriter for President Reagan, wrote. "What she did
this year is some kind of epic American story."

"Miss Taylor Swift is the Person of the Year," she added, in reference to TIME's
yearly tradition.

"She is the best thing that has happened in America in all of 2023," she continued.
"This fact makes her a suitably international choice because when something
good happens in America, boy is it worldwide news."

Noonan argued that Swift record-breaking concert tours across the country have
not only solidified her reputation as an American pop icon, she is also a boon to
the economy.

"She has transformed the economy of every city she visits. The U.S. Travel
Association reported this fall that what her concertgoers spend in and around
each venue ‘is on par with the Super Bowl, but this time it happened on 53
different nights in 20 different locations over the course of five months.’ Downtowns
across the country—uniquely battered by the pandemic and the riots and
demonstrations of 2020—are, while she is there, brought to life, with an influx of
visitors and a local small business boom."

"Wherever she went it was like the past three years didn’t happen," Noonan wrote.

Before taking her show "Eras" worldwide, Swift famously gave her entire staff
millions of dollars in bonuses, Fox News Digital confirmed.

Noonan continued to rattle off Swift's remarkable effect on economies around the
country. "When Ms. Swift played Los Angeles for six sold-out nights in August she
brought a reported $320 million local windfall with her, including 3,300 jobs and a
$160 million increase in local earnings," she wrote. "From Straits Research this
month: Ms. Swift’s tour is ‘an economic phenomenon that is totally altering the rules
of entertainment economics.’"

It is an achievement that puts her in her "own category," Noonan wrote because
she doesn't just pump up the economy — she "bring joy."

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