Putting appointed officials aside for now. If the voters put them in and they pull a bait and switch, why shouldn’t they be capable of being recalled? I would assume it would need a higher threshold than just the normal vote, similar to impeachment.
A good example is Fetterman. He’s completely done a 180 and not what the people voted for, yet as I understand it, Congress-critters can’t be recalled.


In the United States, it’s simple: the Constitution does not lay out any provision for such a recall. For better or worse, and it’s most certainly worse right now, the only way the removal of a person in Congress can happen is if the respective body itself expels the person (Senators to remove a Senator, House to remove a Representative), the person resigns, or the person dies. And expulsion has a fairly high bar to overcome.
Santos was expelled in '23 and another person in '02. It gets used, but the vast majority of the time the person who would get expelled resigns before they can be.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expulsion_from_the_United_States_Congress