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The wife of top Trump White House aide Stephen Miller was brutally fact-checked online after taking aim at a Democratic senator's family.

Sen. Ruben Gallego (D-AZ) posted a video of himself holding his daughter, Isla, while speaking on Capitol Hill. He wrote that Isla was "born right in the middle of my Senate campaign" in 2023.

"One of the most competitive races in the country. And instead of staying out there campaigning, I took two months off," Gallego wrote. "My wife had just been through an unplanned C-section. I wanted to be there for her, and for our newborn because being a husband and a father matters more to me than any campaign, or any job."...

Rep. Ruben Gallego (D-AZ) fervently denied to reporters on Tuesday that he had any knowledge of the sexual assault and harassment allegations surrounding Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA).

Gallego and Swalwell were reportedly close personal and professional friends, and Gallego had previously chaired Swalwell's run for president in 2020. This week he denounced Swalwell's allegations of inappropriate behavior and tried to distance himself from the lawmaker.

"We knew each other differently from anybody else," Gallego said. "My family and his family were as close as it gets. Our kids were in baseball together, we had dinner together as a family. It was entirely different, I think, than what people understand."...

A Democratic lawmaker Thursday shot down President Donald Trump's push to take over Greenland.

Sen. Ruben Gallego (D-AZ) had a stern response to Trump's threats to take the island nation and Danish territory, despite the country's foreign minister and Danish foreign minister pushing back and saying Trump lied in his main claim about why the United States should seize the country.

Gallego was asked in an interview with MS NOW if there was a way to address Trump's security concerns without handing over Greenland — and he didn't hold back. ...

WASHINGTON — Some Democrats don’t think it’s a coincidence that President Donald Trump ordered the razing of the East Wing of the White House in the midst of the second-longest government shutdown in U.S. history.

“How do you make sure he doesn’t do this to other monuments?” Raw Story asked.

“I think this is the point for what's happening right now,” Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) said....

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Outside spending in the 2024 election cycle has surpassed $1 billion, outpacing prior election cycles, according to a new OpenSecrets analysis of federal campaign finance reports.

Super PACs and other outside groups that can raise and spend unlimited sums of money have poured about $1.1 billion into 2024 federal elections as of Aug. 15 — nearly twice what similar groups spent over the same period in the 2020 presidential election cycle when independent expenditures hit an all-time record. ...

Rep. Ruben Gallego (D-AZ), who is in the midst of a competitive U.S. Senate race against Republican election denier Kari Lake, appears to have violated federal financial disclosure law by reporting two transactions nearly two and five years late.

Gallego on Tuesday disclosed an August 2019 purchase of non-publicly traded stock in investment advisory, Aspiration Fund Adviser LLC, valued between $15,001 and $50,000.

Gallego also purchased corporate securities in pronunciation guide services company NameCoach Inc. in June 2022. This investment is also valued between $15,001 and $50,000....