South Carolina senators took the historic step of voting to remove the state’s elected treasurer from office, he hasn’t lost his job yet, and may never lose it.

South Carolina’s Republican-dominated Senate voted 33-8 on Monday to kick the Republican treasurer out of office over a $1.8 billion accounting error.

Most of the $1.8 billion listed in a flow through fund set up during switch in accounting systems never existed, an independent audit report found.