{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.gallego.senate.gov/news/press-releases/watch-on-ms-now-morning-joe-gallego-slams-hegseth-for-stars-and-stripes-firings/", "WATCH: On MS NOW Morning Joe, Gallego Slams Hegseth for Stars and Stripes Firings", "2026-08-26", "2026", "2026-08", "Democrat", "Senate", "AZ", "Ruben Gallego", "G000574", "www.gallego.senate.gov", "gallego", "https://www.gallego.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/", "scraper", "Senator Gallego Also Joins ABC News Live and All In With Chris Hayes on Canada Tariffs and Supreme Court Mail-In Voting Decision\n\nWASHINGTON \u2013 This morning, Senator Ruben Gallego (D-AZ) joined MS NOW\u2019s Morning Joe national news to discuss the Defense Secretary Hegseth\u2019s recent high-level firings at Stars and Stripes.\n\nMS NOW\u2019s Morning Joe\n\n\u201cFor many of us, Stars and Stripes was really our only world that we could read. We had no access to the internet. We had no access to cell phones. Frontline troops like mine were basically thrown out there. And once in a while, whenever we\u2019d get some kind of delivery, the Stars and Stripes would be there. Especially for some of us Iraq War veterans, it was Stars and Stripes that was very essential in kind of breaking what was happening among the Army and the Marine Corps when it came to armaments, when it came to the fact that IEDs were killing us, and then also was very key to informing us about what was happening when it came to PTSD.\n\n\u201cAnd now what\u2019s happening\u2014because this is an independent reporting arm of the DOD on its own, its own publication, with expertise dealing with the military\u2014it is one of the few places that is actually keeping in check the Department of Defense. And that is what scares them, and that is what has consistently scared them.\u201d\n\nDuring the first Trump Administration when Trump tried to defund Stars and Stripes, Gallego joined a bipartisan letter urging the Department of Defense to reverse its decision. For that year\u2019s NDAA, successfully helped secure $15.5 million in funding to ensure its continued operations, and later said it\u2019s one of the things he\u2019s done in Congress that he\u2019s most proud of.\n\nABC News Live\n\nOn Monday, Senator Gallego joined ABC News Live Prime with Linsey Davis to discuss Trump restarting his Trade war on Canada.\n\n\u201cThis president wrote a book called The Art of the Deal. He really should write a book called The Art of Being Stupid. This is going to be a very dumb result for the American consumer, and it\u2019s going to be up and down. You\u2019re going to see it, whether it\u2019s on some smaller items or bigger items.\n\n\u201cThere\u2019s only so much aluminum that is actually being created right now. Largely, it\u2019s actually imported from Canada. We\u2019re not going to be able to create new aluminum plants overnight. We\u2019re going to end up seeing more and more costs of all the things that have and contain aluminum going into that.\n\n\u201cThe worst negotiator in the world just negotiated the worst trade deal in the world for us, and we essentially lost, and now we\u2019re going to end up in another trade war.\u201d\n\nAll in with Chris Hayes on MS NOW\n\nAlso, on Monday, Gallego joined All in with Chris Hayes on MS NOW and spoke with Jacob Soboroff about the Supreme Court Mail-In Voting Decision.", 1, "2026-08-27T16:10:01Z", "2026-08-27T16:10:50Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://www.gallego.senate.gov/news/press-releases/watch-on-ms-now-morning-joe-gallego-slams-hegseth-for-stars-and-stripes-firings/"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.8715761359781027, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}