{"id":21309,"date":"2026-04-14T19:17:52","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T19:17:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/swalwell-and-gonzales-resign\/"},"modified":"2026-04-14T19:17:52","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T19:17:52","slug":"swalwell-and-gonzales-resign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/swalwell-and-gonzales-resign\/","title":{"rendered":"Swalwell and Gonzales resign"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>The House clerk read resignation letters from Reps. Tony Gonzales (R-Texas) and Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.) Tuesday afternoon that will officially end the lawmakers&#8217; tenures in the House.<\/p>\n<p>The duel resignations come as the two men faced sexual misconduct allegations and efforts from colleagues to have them expelled. Swalwell&#8217;s resignation was effective at 2 p.m.; Gonzales\u2019 will be effective midnight.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The House clerk read resignation letters from Reps. Tony Gonzales (R-Texas) and Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.) Tuesday afternoon that will officially end the lawmakers&#8217; tenures in the House. The duel resignations come as the two men faced sexual misconduct allegations and efforts from colleagues to have them expelled. Swalwell&#8217;s resignation was effective at 2 p.m.; Gonzales\u2019 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21309\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}