{"id":351242,"date":"2026-04-13T18:52:51","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T23:52:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/gop-rep-tony-gonzales-says-hes-stepping-down-from-congress"},"modified":"2026-04-13T18:52:53","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T23:52:53","slug":"gop-rep-tony-gonzales-says-hes-stepping-down-from-congress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/gop-rep-tony-gonzales-says-hes-stepping-down-from-congress","title":{"rendered":"GOP Rep. Tony Gonzales says he is stepping down from Congress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"prism-article-body\">\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">Texas Republican Rep. Tony Gonzales announced Monday that he is stepping down from Congress when it returns on Tuesday amid threats to expel him over an affair with a staffer.<!-- -->\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">In a statement on X, Gonzales wrote, \u201cThere 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.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Earlier this year, Gonzales announced he would not run for re-election after admitting to an affair with a staffer who later died by suicide.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \"><em class=\" \">This is a developing story. Please check back for updates.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.com\/Politics\/gop-rep-tony-gonzales-stepping-congress\/story?id=132010266\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Texas Republican Rep. Tony Gonzales announced Monday that he is stepping down from Congress when it returns on Tuesday amid threats to expel him over [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":351245,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1674,16887,27897,332,1425,102,18529],"class_list":["post-351242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-congress","tag-for-us-all","tag-mark-gonzales","tag-politics","tag-republican-party","tag-texas","tag-tony-gonzales"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=351242"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":351244,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351242\/revisions\/351244"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/351245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=351242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=351242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=351242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}