Democrat Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick Immediately Hit With Expulsion Threat

Democratic Florida Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick could be expelled from the House after being charged by federal prosecutors Wednesday night with funneling federal disaster funds into her campaign account.

Republican Florida Rep. Greg Steube, said he would file a motion to censure Cherfilus-McCormick on Thursday morning following the Department of Justice’s indictment that could land her in prison for up to 53 years if convicted. Steube later said that “on second thought” he had “decided to skip censure and move straight to expulsion.”

“Cherfilus-McCormick needs to be swiftly removed from the House before she can inflict any more harm on Congress, her district, and the State of Florida,” Steube wrote in a Thursday morning X post. “I’ll be filing the resolution today. If she refuses to resign and save Congress the embarrassment of having to expel her, I will bring this resolution to the floor for a vote.”

“This is one of the most egregious abuses of public trust I have ever seen,” Steube wrote on X Wednesday night announcing his plans to introduce a censure resolution. “Stealing $5 million in taxpayer disaster funds from FEMA of all places is beyond indefensible. Millions of Floridians have relied on FEMA after devastating hurricanes, and that money was supposed to help real disaster victims.”

“And once House Ethics concludes their investigation or she is formally convicted, rest assured I will move to expel her from Congress,” Steube continued in his Wednesday night X post.

Cherfilus-McCormick serves on the Foreign Affairs and Veterans’ Affairs Committees.

Federal prosecutors said that Cherfilus-McCormick