{"id":71702,"date":"2026-04-14T15:55:35","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T20:55:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/14\/eric-swalwell-and-tony-gonzales-resign-from-congress-amid-sexual-misconduct-allegations\/"},"modified":"2026-04-14T15:55:35","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T20:55:35","slug":"eric-swalwell-and-tony-gonzales-resign-from-congress-amid-sexual-misconduct-allegations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/14\/eric-swalwell-and-tony-gonzales-resign-from-congress-amid-sexual-misconduct-allegations\/","title":{"rendered":"Eric Swalwell and Tony Gonzales resign from Congress amid sexual misconduct allegations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Departures came after lawmakers from both parties threatened to introduce resolutions expelling the two men<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/live\/2026\/apr\/14\/house-swalwell-gonzales-trump-congress-iran-politics-latest-news-updates\">US politics live \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2026\/feb\/17\/sign-up-for-the-breaking-news-us-email-to-get-newsletter-alerts-direct-to-your-inbox?utm_medium=ACQUISITIONS_STANDFIRST&amp;utm_campaign=BN22326&amp;utm_content=signup&amp;utm_term=standfirst&amp;utm_source=GUARDIAN_WEB\">Sign up for the Breaking News US newsletter email<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Democratic congressman Eric Swalwell and Republican Tony Gonzales submitted their resignations to the House of Representatives on Tuesday, abruptly ending their political careers amid bipartisan furor over allegations of sexual misconduct against both.<\/p>\n<p>Swalwell resigned at 2pm eastern time, while Gonazales\u2019s resignation will take effect at 11.59pm on Tuesday evening, according to the House clerk.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/apr\/14\/eric-swalwell-tony-gonzales-resignations\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Departures came after lawmakers from both parties threatened to introduce resolutions expelling the two men US politics live \u2013 latest updates Sign up for the Breaking News US newsletter email Democratic congressman Eric Swalwell and Republican Tony Gonzales submitted their resignations to the House of Representatives on Tuesday, abruptly ending their political careers amid bipartisan &#8230; <a title=\"Eric Swalwell and Tony Gonzales resign from Congress amid sexual misconduct allegations\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/14\/eric-swalwell-and-tony-gonzales-resign-from-congress-amid-sexual-misconduct-allegations\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Eric Swalwell and Tony Gonzales resign from Congress amid sexual misconduct allegations\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71702\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}