Last Week, Donald Trump Removed MLK Day and Juneteenth from List of Fee-Free Days, Included His Birthday Instead WASHINGTON – Senator Ruben Gallego (D-AZ) backs the Encouraging Public Service in Our National Parks and Public Land Act to codify six days where visitors to National Parks and other federal lands can enter free-of-charge. This legislation would direct the Secretary of the Interior to officially designate Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Birthday, the first day of National Park Week, Juneteenth, Great American Outdoors Day, National Public Lands Day, and Veterans Day as fee-free entry days. “Cutting two national holidays, when many families are already off of work and school,

WASHINGTON – Ahead of the holiday season, Senator Ruben Gallego (D-AZ) backed two bills to protect workers’ safety and right to organize. Tomorrow, Senator Gallego will join union Starbucks baristas at the picket line in Gilbert, Arizona in solidarity with their ongoing strike against Starbucks’ union busting and the company’s failure to finalize a first union contract with its employees.   The bipartisan Warehouse Worker Protection Act would protect nearly 2 million of our nations’ warehouse workers by banning hazardous work speed quotas that push workers beyond their limits and lead to high rates of injuries. “This holiday season, more than thirty thousand Arizona warehouse workers are working long

WASHINGTON – Senator Ruben Gallego (D-AZ) and 22 Senate colleagues urged Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins to move forward with the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) avian flu vaccine strategy for poultry while encouraging a comprehensive, science-based approach. Earlier this year, Hickman Family Farms, one of the largest egg producers in the country, lost nearly its entire chicken population in Arizona due to avian flu.   “We are writing to encourage the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to continue prioritizing an avian flu vaccine strategy that takes into account a comprehensive, science-based approach for the potential vaccination of poultry and livestock that have been impacted