WASHINGTON – During a Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee hearing today, Senator Ruben Gallego (D-AZ) pressed Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem on the department’s overspending and what she’s doing to combat cartel recruitment of American teens on social media.   Watch Senator Gallego’s questioning HERE. Senator Gallego started his questioning by highlighting his new 5-pillar plan for immigration and border security reform. “The Trump Administration has provided strong border security. We definitely see that in Arizona. My concern is that is not sustainable, it is expensive,” Senator Gallego said. “That is why I released a commonsense border security that would make it sustainable and lead to long-term

WASHINGTON – Today, Senator Ruben Gallego (D-AZ) helped introduce the Combating Cartels on Social Media Act, which cracks down on cartels’ dangerous recruitment of teenagers through social media to conduct illegal smuggling and trafficking. Senators Mark Kelly (D-AZ) and James Lankford (R-OK) and Representatives Juan Ciscomani (R-AZ-6) and Chrissy Houlahan (D-PA-6) introduced the bill.  Cartels have been using social media apps like Snapchat, Instagram, TikTok to recruit Americans—including teens—to smuggle drugs over the U.S.-Mexico border. The Combating Cartels on Social Media Act would require the Department of Homeland Security to establish and implement a national strategy to combat transnational criminal organizations from recruiting individuals through social media and online platforms. The bill would also allow social media companies to voluntarily report

WASHINGTON – 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 from the Joint Economic Committee (JEC) showing that 300,679 Arizonans would lose their health insurance under House Republicans’ proposed plan to fund tax breaks for billionaires.   The House Republican bill would result in 190,993 Arizonans losing Medicaid coverage and 109,686 losing Affordable Care Act coverage, according to the JEC. These estimates are based on projections from the Congressional Budget Office, which found the legislation would lead to 13.7 million more people across the country becoming uninsured by 2034 compared to current law. That’s because of