The Republican National Committee is seizing on Sen. Ruben Gallego, D-Ariz., reportedly planning to accept his taxpayer-funded paycheck while his own staff does not get paid amid the Senate Democrat-forced government shutdown.
Gallego voted 11 times against reopening the government, “once again proving that Democrat hypocrisy knows no bounds,” RNC Deputy Rapid Response Director Sonali Patel wrote in a public memo shared with Newsmax.
The memo came amid reporting that the senator, “when asked about his own employees struggling without pay, Gallego arrogantly brushed it off: ‘I told you what I told you.'”
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