2026年2月24日 / 美国东部时间下午6:11 / 哥伦比亚广播公司新闻
前众议院议长凯文·麦卡锡周二告诉哥伦比亚广播公司新闻，在一组新披露的短信引发对德克萨斯州共和党议员托尼·冈萨雷斯与一名后来自杀身亡的工作人员之间所谓恋情的重新审视后，冈萨雷斯应辞职。
“如果这发生在一家企业里，他早就被解雇了，”加利福尼亚州共和党人麦卡锡在《Major Garrett脱口秀》中表示。
麦卡锡指出，哥伦比亚广播公司新闻和其他媒体本周获得了冈萨雷斯与工作人员雷吉娜·桑托斯-阿维莱斯在2024年5月的短信交流记录。在这段交流中，冈萨雷斯鼓励桑托斯-阿维莱斯给他发“性感照片”并问她性问题。她曾回复说：“老板，这太过分了。”
桑托斯-阿维莱斯于2025年9月自焚后一天死亡。她已婚，有一个8岁的儿子。
周二被记者问及这些短信时，这位国会议员表示他不会辞职，并补充道：“你们看到的不是全部事实。”冈萨雷斯过去曾否认有染。
麦卡锡说：“这里发生的事情令人痛心。”
“如果你知道这些情况，你怎么还会支持他？如果你现在知道了这些情况却保持沉默，你怎么能心安理得？”前众议院议长表示。
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短信曝光后，几名众议院共和党人要么敦促冈萨雷斯辞职，要么支持下周初选中的强硬右翼挑战者布兰登·赫雷拉。
麦卡锡的继任者、共和党领袖、众议院议长迈克·约翰逊在接受《哥伦比亚广播公司晚间新闻》主播托尼·多库皮尔采访时也称针对冈萨雷斯的指控“令人憎恶”。但他没有呼吁冈萨雷斯辞职，称“我们正在努力理清这些问题”，“我们在这里要做的是让所有事实都公之于众”。
麦卡锡向哥伦比亚广播公司新闻暗示，领导层应该采取行动。
“这是不可接受的，”麦卡锡说，“这是我们党内领袖应该介入的情况。在这种情况下，我们必须采取行动来保护其他人。”
Kevin McCarthy says Rep. Gonzales should resign over alleged affair with late staffer
February 24, 2026 / 6:11 PM EST / CBS News
Former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy told CBS News on Tuesday that Rep. Tony Gonzales should resign, after a set of newly revealed text messages drew fresh scrutiny to an alleged affair between the Texas Republican and a staffer who later died by suicide.
“If this was in a business, he would’ve been fired,” McCarthy, a California Republican, said on “The Takeout with Major Garrett.”
McCarthy pointed to a May 2024 text exchange between Gonzales and the staffer, Regina Santos-Aviles, that was obtained by CBS News and other media outlets this week. In the exchange, Gonzales encouraged Santos-Aviles to send him a “sexy pic” and asked her sexual questions. She responded at one point: “This is going too far boss.”
Santos-Aviles died one day after setting herself on fire in September 2025. She was married with an 8-year-old son.
Asked by reporters about the texts on Tuesday, the congressman said he will not resign, adding, “What you’ve seen are not all the facts.” In the past, Gonzales has denied having an affair.
McCarthy said, “It’s devastating what has transpired here.”
“If you have this knowledge, how do you endorse him? If you didn’t know that knowledge and you do now, how do you stay quiet?” the former House speaker said.
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Since the texts became public, several House Republicans have either urged Gonzales to resign or backed hard-right challenger Brandon Herrera in next week’s primary election.
McCarthy’s successor as GOP leader, House Speaker Mike Johnson, also called the allegations against Gonzales “detestable” in an interview with “CBS Evening News” anchor Tony Dokoupil. But he didn’t call for Gonzales’resignation, saying, “We’re trying to sort it out,” and “what we do here is we allow all the facts to play out.”
McCarthy suggested to CBS News that leadership should take action.
“This is unacceptable,” McCarthy said. “This is where the leaders of the conference, we would have to step in. You step in in these situations to protect everybody else.”
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