众议院议长凯文·麦卡锡周一坚称，他“一直”对现任众议员乔治·桑多斯的简历有一些疑问在不断的揭露中关于来自纽约的新议员的谎言和修饰。
“我从来不知道他的简历，但我总是有一些问题，”麦卡锡告诉记者。
与桑托斯有关的说法之一是，2021年，他的一名竞选工作人员伪装成麦卡锡的幕僚长，以争取对桑托斯的支持据纽约时报上周报道.
麦卡锡周一表示，“事情发生了，我知道他们纠正了(它)，但我直到后来才得到通知。”
当被问及他是否与桑托斯谈论过他的幕僚长被报道的口是心非时，麦卡锡告诉记者，“是的，但不幸的是，我直到后来才知道这件事。”
桑托斯自称是金融家和商人，他承认在他上大学的地方撒了谎，并说他说错了直接为高盛和花旗工作，这两家公司表示没有雇用他的记录。
他背景的其他部分，包括他自己经营的一个动物慈善机构以及他的犹太血统，也受到了挑战.
麦卡锡此前拒绝就围绕桑托斯的争议发表评论，它在12月份首次出现，直到新的国会开始后，他才赢得了惊堂木。
这位发言人后来试图淡化桑托斯的一些捏造同时说桑托斯“必须在这里建立信任”
“选民做出了决定，他有权在这里服务，”麦卡锡上周告诉ABC新闻的雷切尔·斯科特。“如果有什么事情上升到他做错了的场合，那么我们将在那个时候处理。”
麦卡锡的最新评论来自纽约民主党人对他和其他共和党领导人的压力，要求他们透露他们对桑托斯在竞选活动中的虚假陈述的了解，如果有的话-特别是在《泰晤士报》上周报道说一些州共和党人知道这些修饰之后。
众议员Dan Goldman和Ritchie Torres周日致信McCarthy，众议院共和党会议主席Elise Stefanik，R-N.Y .和国会领导基金(CLF)主席Dan Conston，要求他们每个人都“直接配合”众议院和其他地方对Santos的调查。
“我们敦促你在选举前告知美国人民你对桑托斯先生的欺骗网络的了解，”戈德曼和托雷斯写道。
Stefanik周一不会与记者讨论高盛和Torres的信，CLF的发言人拒绝对ABC新闻发表评论。去年秋天，该组织没有在财政上支持桑托斯的竞选。
更多:桑托斯的另一个监察机构指控滥用竞选资金的目标
桑托斯没有被指控任何罪行上个月告诉纽约邮报，“我不是罪犯。”他承认了一些谎言，但表示这些谎言更像是例行的简历修饰。
七名众议院共和党人人呼吁他辞职。
“我是14.2万人选出来的。直到同样的142，000人告诉我他们不要我，我们将在两年内发现，”桑多斯上周在史蒂夫·班农的“战争室”播客中说，指的是要求他下台的呼声。
McCarthy insists he 'always had a few questions' about Santos' resume
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy insisted Monday that he "always" had some questions related to now-Rep. George Santos' resume amid ongoing revelations about the lies and embellishments by the freshman lawmaker from New York.
"I never knew all about his resume or not, but I always had a few questions about it," McCarthy, R-Calif., told reporters.
Among the claims related to Santos is that in 2021 a campaign staffer of his had masqueraded as McCarthy's chief of staff in a bid to gin up support for Santos, as reported by The New York Times last week.
McCarthy said Monday that "it happened and I know they corrected [it], but I was not notified about that until a later day."
When asked if he had spoken with Santos about the reported duplicity over his chief of staff, McCarthy told reporters, "Yeah, but I didn't know about it until a later date, unfortunately."
Santos, a self-described financier and businessman, has admitted lying about where he went to college and said he misspoke about working directly for Goldman Sachs and Citigroup, who say they have no records of employing him.
Other parts of his background, including about an animal charity he said he ran and the extent of his Jewish ancestry, have also been challenged.
McCarthy previously declined to comment on the controversy surrounding Santos, which first emerged in December, until after the new Congress began and he won the gavel.
The speaker has since sought to play down some of Santos' fabrications while saying that Santos was "gonna have to build the trust here."
"The voters made the decision, and he has a right to serve here," McCarthy told ABC News' Rachel Scott last week. "If there is something that rises to the occasion that he did something wrong, then we'll deal with that at that time."
McCarthy's latest comments come amid pressure from New York Democrats for him and other GOP leaders to reveal what they knew, if anything, about Santos' false statements on the campaign trail -- particularly after a Times report last week that the embellishments were known among some state Republicans.
Reps. Dan Goldman and Ritchie Torres on Sunday sent a letter to McCarthy, House GOP Conference Chair Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y., and Congressional Leadership Fund (CLF) President Dan Conston requesting that they each "forthrightly cooperate" with investigations of Santos in the House and elsewhere.
"[W]e urge you to inform the American people about your knowledge of Mr. Santos's web of deceit prior to the election," Goldman and Torres wrote.
Stefanik would not discuss Goldman and Torres' letter with reporters on Monday and a spokesperson for CLF declined to comment on it to ABC News. The group did not financially support Santos' election bid last fall.
Santos has not been accused of any crime and told The New York Post last month, "I am not a criminal." He has admitted some lies but said they were more like routine resume embellishments.
Seven House Republicans have called on him to resign.
"I was elected by 142,000 people. Until those same 142,000 people tell me they don't want me, we'll find out in two years," Santos said last week on Steve Bannon's "War Room" podcast, referencing calls for his ouster.
