{"id":241188,"date":"2026-04-22T01:29:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T01:29:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/241188\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T01:29:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T01:29:15","slug":"rep-sheila-cherfilus-mccormick-resigns-from-congress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/241188\/","title":{"rendered":"Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick resigns from Congress"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"sub-headline watch-truncate\" data-v-ea1137ca=\"\">Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick resigned from Congress on Tuesday, effective immediately, moments before the House Ethics Committee could meet to potentially discipline her. She called the House Ethics Committee proceeding unfair.<\/p>\n<p>She faces federal criminal charges alleging she used federal disaster funds to support her congressional campaign. She has pleaded not guilty to those charges.<\/p>\n<p>Posted\u00a0April 21, 2026 6:03pm EDT<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick resigned from Congress on Tuesday, effective immediately, moments before the House Ethics Committee could meet&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":241189,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[139,141,140],"class_list":["post-241188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=241188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241188\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/241189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}