Speaker Kevin McCarthy has set up a new fundraising platform called Protect the House New York 2024. As the name implies, they want to channel funds to newly elected and potentially vulnerable House Republicans from the Empire State to sustain if not expand the GOP majority. The fund will be helping members including Mike Lawler, Brandon Williams, Marc Molinaro, Anthony D’Esposito, Andrew Garbarino, and Nick LaLota. One name is notably absent from the list, however. That would be embattled Representative George Santos. He will apparently be on his own in terms of cash for his recently announced reelection bid.

Rep. George Santos (R-N.Y.) may be running for reelection but the embattled congressman, under fire for fabricating portions of his resume, isn’t likely to get much fundraising help from his party, a new fundraising vehicle indicates.

Santos’ seat is one of Democrats’ top targets in next year’s elections, but the freshman lawmaker is a notable omission from Protect the House New York 2024, a joint fundraising committee formed to corral money for vulnerable House Republicans in the state.

The committee includes both House Speaker Kevin McCarthy and his leadership PAC, as well as the NRCC, the House Republicans’ campaign arm, and the New York State Republicans’ federal PAC.

We should recall that McCarthy has not yet publicly called for Santos to resign, though several of the other New York Republicans on his list have. But the day probably isn’t terribly far off when it will happen. When the Speaker was asked whether or not he planned to raise money for Santos he literally laughed in response and said that he would need to “wait and see who else jumps into the race.”

If Santos draws a strong enough primary challenger, it’s not impossible that McCarthy would choose to raise some money for them instead. The same might be said for the NRCC. They launched a similar fund in February that included every Republican lawmaker from Long Island except for Santos.

Without some help, George Santos won’t be able to run much of a campaign. As we discussed over the weekend, his campaign coffers are down to roughly $25,000 dollars and he raised almost nothing in the first quarter of this year. We’re still waiting for the results of the FEC investigation into his campaign finance issues and another by the House Ethics Committee. If they come back with anything substantial against him, don’t be surprised if the House GOP caucus votes to eject him from the chamber. That would at least free up the primary race a bit and potentially increase the Republicans’ chances of holding onto the seat.

Meanwhile, Santos does appear to be trying to distract us all, or at least look like he’s keeping busy. After announcing his 2024 campaign, he released seven new bills. One of them seeks to put a pause on vaccine development work and for reasons unknown, he named the bill after Nicki Minaj. Perhaps he’s just trying to impress her. Or possibly he’s looking to borrow some of her clothes.