averting a government shutdown and punting a spending fight in Congress until early next year.

money laundering and other crimes.Santos would have become just the sixth House member to be expelled from Congress.

one of the Republicans from the New York delegation who sought to expel Santos.committee leaders announced more than 30 subpoenas and dozens of voluntary requests for information.The bipartisan committee announced in March that it had opened a broad investigation into Santos to determine whether he had engaged in unlawful activity during his 2022 campaign.

Representative Santos sought to fraudulently exploit every aspect of his House candidacy for his own personal financial profit.Ellis Kim and Jaala Brown contributed reporting.

said Wednesday its quite likely there will be another expulsion vote and blamed the Ethics Committees statement in October for taking the wind out of the sails of the expulsion efforts.

Santos faced his first expulsion attempt in May.The committee did not make recommendations about punishment for Santos.

Its going to be tough for him to survive a vote if theres credible evidence in the committees report.when Democrats sought to remove him from Congress after he was first charged with fraud.

Santos said ahead of the vote.I stand firmly in my innocence.