{"id":35463,"date":"2025-03-08T15:23:09","date_gmt":"2025-03-08T15:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/08\/indicted-house-democrat-under-fire-for-being-on-dcccs-frontline-list-sleazy-politician\/"},"modified":"2025-03-08T15:23:09","modified_gmt":"2025-03-08T15:23:09","slug":"indicted-house-democrat-under-fire-for-being-on-dcccs-frontline-list-sleazy-politician","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/08\/indicted-house-democrat-under-fire-for-being-on-dcccs-frontline-list-sleazy-politician\/","title":{"rendered":"Indicted House Democrat under fire for being on DCCC’s ‘frontline’ list: ‘Sleazy politician’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rep. Henry Cuellar, who is facing charges of bribery<\/a> and acting as a foreign agent, is now on the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee\u2019s “frontline list” for the 2026 election, which is gaining scrutiny from the group\u2019s GOP rival.<\/p>\n

Cuellar, who represents a district along the southern border, was not part of the program meant to assist Democrats at risk of losing their election in 2024, but he still won re-election in November. \u00a0<\/p>\n

“The DCCC throwing cash at Henry Cuellar, an indicted congressman facing bribery and foreign agent charges, is certainly a choice. Do other frontline Democrats stand by pumping campaign cash into defending a corrupt and sleazy politician?” NRCC spokesman Mike Marinella said in a statement Thursday.<\/p>\n

DEMOCRAT CONGRESSMAN ADMITS BIDEN ADMINISTRATION DID NOT \u2018FOCUS ENOUGH\u2019 ON CURBING ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

The Department of Justice under the Biden administration indicted Cuellar and his wife for allegedly taking roughly $600,000 in bribes from an Azerbaijan-owned energy company and a Mexican bank, according to a news release at the time.<\/p>\n

“I want to be clear that both my wife and I are innocent of these allegations. Everything I have done in Congress has been to serve the people of South Texas<\/a>. Before I took any action, I proactively sought legal advice from the House Ethics Committee, who gave me more than one written opinion, along with an additional opinion from a national law firm,” Cuellar said in a statement at the time, according to KGNS.<\/p>\n

At the time of the indictment, President Donald Trump said it may have had to do with border politics.<\/p>\n

“Biden just Indicted Henry Cuellar because the Respected Democrat Congressman wouldn\u2019t play Crooked Joe\u2019s Open Border game,” Trump said in a Truth Social post<\/a> at the time. “He was for Border Control, so they said, \u2018Let\u2019s use the FBI and DOJ to take him out!\u2019 This is the way they operate. They\u2019re a bunch of D.C. Thugs, and at some point they will be paying a very big price for what they have done to our Country.”\u00a0<\/p>\n

Cuellar also recently told Fox News he’s disagreed with some aspects of the Biden administration’s approach on the border crisis.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In 2024, some Democrats opposed his campaign in the primary due to his belief that abortion should be a state issue, according to Punchbowl News.\u00a0<\/p>\n

His office did not respond to a request for comment in time for publication. Two “advisors” tied to the case have already pleaded guilty, according to The Texas Tribune.<\/p>\n

As for Cuellar, his trial was pushed back to this year. The DCCC declined to comment.<\/p>\n

The DCCC program has 26 incumbent members of Congress it plans to invest resources in to retain their seats.<\/p>\n

TEXAS DEMOCRAT SAYS HE CAN FIND ‘COMMON GROUND’ WITH TRUMP’S INCOMING BORDER CZAR<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

“These 26 House Democrats are battle-tested and laser-focused on pocketbook issues. Democrats are poised to retake the majority in 2026, and these members will help us do that,” the DCCC tweeted on Thursday.<\/p>\n

Republicans have an narrow House majority they hope to defend and expand in 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Rep. Henry Cuellar, who is facing charges of bribery and acting as a foreign agent, is now on the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee\u2019s “frontline list” for the 2026 election, which is gaining scrutiny from the group\u2019s GOP rival. Cuellar, who represents a district along the southern border, was not part of the program meant to … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35463\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}