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ICYMI: Senator Gallego Visits Northern Arizona; Highlights Efforts to Protect Medicaid, Support Local Business Amid Trade War, and Defend Veterans’ Services
ARIZONA – Last week, Senator Ruben Gallego (D-AZ) made his first visit to Northern Arizona since being elected to the U.S. Senate, where he heard directly from Arizonans about the impacts of the potential cuts to Medicaid, Trump’s trade war, and ongoing threats to veterans’ programs. Senator Gallego kicked off his visit on Thursday with a town hall on the Yavapai Apache Nation to hear directly from Arizonans about the real-life consequences of Republican-led efforts to cut Medicaid and strip health care from families across Northern Arizona. This was the Senator’s third Save Medicaid town hall in the state. Gallego listens to concerned Arizonans at a Save
Gallego, Kelly, Stanton, Ansari: Medicaid Cuts Would Undermine Arizona’s Fight Against the Fentanyl Crisis
Joint Economic Committee report finds that over 31,000 Arizonans access addiction treatment through Medicaid WASHINGTON – Today, Arizona Senators Ruben Gallego and Mark Kelly, alongside Representatives Greg Stanton (D-AZ-04) and Yassamin Ansari (D-AZ-03), responded to a new report released by the Joint Economic Committee Minority warning that proposed Medicaid cuts by President Trump and Republicans would threaten addiction treatment access for thousands of Arizonans and undermine the state’s efforts to combat the ongoing fentanyl crisis. According to the report, more than 31,000 Arizonans receive gold-standard treatment for opioid use disorder through Medicaid, known in Arizona as AHCCCS—and over 22,000 of those members are covered solely because of Arizona’s Medicaid expansion program. State law
Gallego, Kelly, Hobbs, ACA Celebrate Arizona’s Leadership in AI and Supercomputing
Announcements from AMD and Nvidia made possible by Gallego-backed CHIPS and Science Act WASHINGTON — Today, Senators Ruben Gallego and Mark Kelly, Governor Katie Hobbs, and the Arizona Commerce Authority celebrated major announcements from Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) and Nvidia that show Arizona taking a leading role in the next generation of microchips and artificial intelligence. AMD said that it’s ready to produce chips in America and make more AI servers in the U.S. Nvidia shared that it will produce its AI supercomputers entirely in the United States—making, packaging, and testing its chips in Arizona. TSMC and Amkor, which manufacture and test Nvidia and AMD’s leading-edge chips, were both brought to