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Isabela Belchior raised eyebrows on Capitol Hill last year when she left the office of Rep. Sylvia Garcia, a Texas Democrat who helped prosecute the first impeachment case against former President Donald Trump, to work as a legislative counsel for Rep. Matt Gaetz.
Now, as Gaetz aides jump ship amid a federal sex-trafficking investigation into the Florida Republican, Belchior is rising up the ranks of the outspoken Trump ally s congressional office.