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Sen. Ruben Gallego had a present for Speaker Mike Johnson. And he had to give it to him right away.

It didn’t matter that Christmas was more than a month away or that Gallego didn’t even have to be in the Capitol on Tuesday—the day after the Senate voted to reopen the government in a series of evening votes. Instead, dressed in blue slacks and a tan pullover, he went into the speaker’s office with a special gift: a copy of the memoirs of Virginia Giuffre , the late sex-trafficking victim of Jeffrey Epstein.

Needless to say, this was all filmed to be posted on the internet by the Arizona senator.

Gallego’s appearance at Johnson’s office is a sign of what’s ne

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