Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) on Sunday said he thinks Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) could face the same threat of expulsion as Rep. George Santos (R-NY) once a House ethics review drops.

“I think once that Ethics complaint comes forward, he could have the same problem as Santos has,” McCarthy told Fox News’ “Sunday Morning Futures.”

“I think the conference would be probably better united to be able to move forward and get this all done.”

Gaetz has been under a review by the House Committee on Ethics that is thought to center around accusations including sexual misconduct and illicit drug use.

The committee last week dropped a stunning report on Santos — who is staring down a 23-count indictment — that alleged he “blatantly stole” from his campaign for personal use.

Committee Chairman Michael Guest (R-Miss.) has brought up a motion to expel Santos, which the lower chamber is expected to take up once it reconvenes after Thanksgiving.

Santos — who has been hit with damning revelations that he fabricated large swaths of his backstory — has denied the allegations and accused the panel of bias.

Gaetz, meanwhile, has strenuously denied wrongdoing and blasted his ethics review.

“I am the most investigated man in the United States Congress,” Gaetz said last month. “It seems that the Ethics Committee’s interest in me waxes and wanes based on my relationship with the speaker.”

Federal prosecutors earlier this year decided not to charge the Florida firebrand following a lengthy investigation into allegations of encounters with teenage women.

Back in September, he was cleared of accusations by the Federal Election Commission of using campaign funds to foot legal bills for that probe.

Last month, Gaetz led a mutiny of eight Republicans who banded together with a solid bloc of Democrats to topple McCarthy from the House speakership.

McCarthy has long speculated that Gaetz was motivated by the ethics probe and has alleged that the Florida congressman asked him to intervene in the review, but that he refused. Gaetz has denied that claim.

The California rep also again denied accusations he shoved another foe Sunday: Rep. Tim Burchett (R-Tenn.), who was among the eight Republicans that voted to oust him.

Last week, Burchett accused McCarthy of elbowing him in the gut — in a dust-up witnessed by an NPR correspondent after a House GOP conference meeting.

“If anybody got bumped, it was not intentional. It’s just a crowded hallway, where everybody’s walking out at one time,” McCarthy said Sunday.

McCarthy then clarified that he wasn’t accusing Burchett of making up the physical encounter.

“If somebody got bumped because of a narrow hallway, it happens all the time. It was not intentional. I know no one got punched in the process,” he said.

In addition to that spat last week, Rep. Chip Roy (R-Tx.) made waves complaining about the lack of deliverables House Republicans achieved.

His grumbling came in the context of the recent “laddered” stopgap measure to avert a government shutdown this past Friday that had no spending cuts attached.

McCarthy said he wished he was in the House chambers to respond to Roy when he made that viral remark.

“We cut $2 trillion. We got work requirements. We got reform to NEPA, something we haven’t done in 40 years. We stopped any IRS new agents from being hired this year and $20 billion going into the future,” McCarthy explained.

Santos has survived expulsion efforts already, most recently one that was championed by six New York Republicans.

McCarthy did not back the effort at the time, and a coterie of Democrats didn’t either.

But an outpour of Republicans and Democrats who opposed the prior effort have since changed their tune, elevating the specter of an expulsion.

Congress will need to attain a two-third majority to expel him.