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更新时间：2026年4月13日，美国东部时间晚上7:39
发布时间：2026年4月13日，美国东部时间晚上6:37
2025年3月25日，众议员托尼·冈萨雷斯在美国国会举行的新闻发布会上。
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深陷困境的共和党众议员托尼·冈萨雷斯于周一宣布，他将辞去国会职务。此时距他可能面临一场高风险投票仅数日之遥，这场投票本可能使他成为美国众议院历史上第七位被驱逐的议员。
这位得克萨斯州共和党议员表示，他计划于周二“正式提交退休辞呈”，共和党领导层消息人士向CNN证实，这意味着他将正式辞职。此前，众议院道德委员会正在对冈萨雷斯展开调查，原因是他与自己国会办公室的一名前高级助手存在不正当关系。
目前尚不清楚辞职将于何时生效。冈萨雷斯与民主党众议员埃里克·斯沃韦尔此前都面临着众议院同僚的巨大辞职压力，原因是两人均被指控与曾为其工作的人员存在不正当性关系。就在冈萨雷斯宣布辞职的几分钟前，斯沃韦尔也宣布了自己的辞职决定。
周一晚间两人相继辞职，堪称一场令人震惊的问责风暴，也让这位得克萨斯州共和党议员长达数月的风波突然迎来转折。尽管此前共和党领导层已呼吁冈萨雷斯放弃连任竞选，但直到周一，他仍能继续履行议员职责。
众议院共和党领导人此前深知，失去冈萨雷斯的投票将得不偿失，私下里承认这会削弱他们的议会优势，让推进特朗普的立法议程变得更加困难。（众议院议长迈克·约翰逊此前一直反对驱逐议员，他曾表示，驱逐议员需经众议院道德委员会完成全面调查。）
但随着民主党人似乎越来越有可能支持驱逐本党议员斯沃韦尔——后者面临包括一名前助手在内的性侵指控——共和党内部的计算开始发生变化。
许多呼声最高的议员——包括佛罗里达州众议员安娜·保利娜·卢纳，她曾明确呼吁驱逐冈萨雷斯，尽管这会损害共和党在议会的优势——也都卷入了国会正在进行的一项调查，该调查聚焦于联邦政府如何不当处理对连环虐待者杰弗里·爱泼斯坦的调查。
这场声势浩大的辞职推动事件标志着国会山迎来了一个令人震惊的时刻。
在2010年代末的#MeToo运动期间，民主党曾施压本党议员，比如明尼苏达州参议员阿尔·弗兰肯和众议员约翰·科尼尔斯辞职。共和党也在同一时期施压本党议员，比如得克萨斯州众议员布莱克·法伦霍尔德和亚利桑那州众议员特伦特·弗兰克斯辞职。这些议员当时都面临性行为不端的指控。
随着针对斯沃韦尔的指控不断升级，幕后已经出现了一项计划：由两党各一名议员——新墨西哥州民主党众议员特雷莎·莱格尔·费尔南德斯和佛罗里达州共和党众议员安娜·保利娜·卢纳——分别起草一项驱逐议案，推动针对两人的单独驱逐投票。这位共和党议员的议案将针对斯沃韦尔，而这位民主党议员的议案将针对冈萨雷斯。
他们的初衷是让两党各失去一名议员，这意味着议长迈克·约翰逊本就脆弱的多数党优势不会发生变化。但实际上，两党领导人都不支持驱逐投票，他们担心这会在众议院开创一个令人担忧的先例——此前众议院历史上仅有六名议员被驱逐。
冈萨雷斯此前已经失去了共和党领导层的支持，尽管他们并未立即呼吁他辞去国会职务，而是要求他退出连任竞选，他也确实照做了。
“凡事都有定期，天下万物都有定时，上帝对我们每个人都有安排。明天国会复会时，我将正式提交退休辞呈。能为得克萨斯州伟大的民众服务，是我的荣幸。”这位议员在X平台上写道。
冈萨雷斯此前已承认与一名前员工发生婚外情，这违反了众议院的议事规则。这名前员工后来自杀身亡。
随后在上周，《圣安东尼奥快报》披露了此前未被报道的短信内容，据称这些短信是冈萨雷斯在2020年6月首次竞选国会期间发给其竞选政治主任的。
正如该报所披露的，这些短信中，冈萨雷斯询问这名员工“你穿什么样的内裤？”，反复向她索要裸照，并描述了自己想与她发生性关系的想法。这一被指控的行为与此前的婚外情无关；收到这些短信的员工告诉《圣安东尼奥快报》，两人的关系从未发展到肢体接触的程度。
本文已更新补充更多信息。
Embattled GOP Rep. Tony Gonzales announces he’s stepping down from Congress
2026-04-13T22:37:19.000Z / CNN
By Sarah Ferris
Updated 25 min ago
Updated Apr 13, 2026, 7:39 PM ET
PUBLISHED Apr 13, 2026, 6:37 PM ET
Rep. Tony Gonzales during a press conference in the US Capitol on March 25, 2025.
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Embattled Republican Rep. Tony Gonzales announced Monday that he would step down from Congress, just days before he faced the possibility of a high-stakes vote that could have made him the seventh member to ever be expelled from the House.
The Texas Republican said he planned to “file my retirement from office” on Tuesday, which GOP leadership sources confirmed to CNN meant that he would resign. Gonzales had been under investigation by the House Ethics Committee for having a relationship with a former senior aide in his congressional office.
It was not immediately clear when the resignation would take effect. Gonzales and Democratic Rep. Eric Swalwell have both been under fierce pressure by their House colleagues to resign after allegations that they had sexual relationships with people who had worked for them. Swalwell announced his own resignation minutes before Gonzales.
Those two resignations in quick succession Monday night amounted to a stunning flurry of accountability, and a sudden turn in a months-long saga for the Texas Republican. Though Gonzales had faced calls from his own party leadership to abandon his reelection bid, he had until Monday been able to remain in his job.
House GOP leaders knew they couldn’t afford to lose his vote and had privately acknowledged that losing him would hurt their voting margin, making it much harder to accomplish Trump’s agenda. (Johnson has not been in favor of expelling members in the past, which he has said required a complete investigation by the House Ethics Committee.)
But the calculation inside the GOP began to change as Democrats appeared increasingly likely to back expulsion for their own member, Swalwell, as he faced allegations of sexual misconduct, including from a former aide.
Many of the most vocal lawmakers — including Rep. Anna Paulina Luna of Florida, who had notably called to expel Gonzales even though it would hurt the GOP’s margins — are also involved in Congress’ ongoing investigation into how the federal government mishandled the investigation into serial abuser Jeffrey Epstein.
The dramatic push for resignations marked a stunning moment on Capitol Hill.
During the late 2010s amid the #MeToo movement, Democrats pressured members of their own party, such as Sen. Al Franken of Minnesota and Rep. John Conyers, to resign. Republicans pressured their own members, like Reps. Blake Farenthold of Texas and Trent Franks of Arizona, around the same time. All faced accusations of sexual misconduct.
As the allegations against Swalwell unfolded, behind the scenes, a plan had emerged for a woman from each party, Democratic Rep. Teresa Leger Fernández of New Mexico and GOP Rep. Anna Paulina Luna of Florida, to each draft an expulsion measure to force separate removal votes targeting the two members. The GOP representative’s measure would target Swalwell, while the Democrat’s would target Gonzales.
Their idea was for both parties to lose a member — which would mean no change in Speaker Mike Johnson’s fragile majority. In reality, however, GOP and Democratic leaders were not in favor of expulsion votes, which they feared would set a concerning precedent in the House, where only six members have ever been expelled before.
Gonzales had already lost support from GOP leaders, though they did not call on him to resign from Congress immediately. Instead, they called for him to withdraw from his election, which he did.
“There is a season for everything and God has a plan for us all. When Congress returns tomorrow, I will file my retirement from office. It has been my privilege to serve the great people of Texas,” the congressman said on X.
Gonzales had acknowledged an affair with a former staffer, a violation of House rules. The former staffer later died by suicide.
Then last week, the San Antonio Express-News published previously unreported texts that Gonzales allegedly sent the political director of his campaign in June 2020, during his first run for Congress.
The texts, as published by the Express-News, included Gonzales asking that staffer “What kind of panties do you wear?,” repeatedly soliciting nude photos from her, and describing how he wanted to have sex with her. That alleged conduct was separate from the affair; the staffer who received the texts told the San Antonio Express-News the relationship never became physical.
This story has been updated with additional information.
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