Ag bill includes more than $2.7 million for rural Arizona fire, police, and flood protection projects and major investments in food assistance, rural housing, Tribal colleges, and water infrastructure WASHINGTON – Today, Arizona Senators Ruben Gallego and Mark Kelly announced that they advanced major investments for Arizona communities in the Senate’s annual Agriculture and Rural Development funding bill, including six Arizona projects to upgrade fire and police facilities and improve flood control infrastructure. The bill also supports drought resilience, food assistance, rural housing, and Tribal and Hispanic-serving institutions. It next heads to the House of Representatives where it must pass before going to the president’s desk to be signed

WASHINGTON – Just hours after the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) released a disappointing jobs report, President Trump announced he was firing the agency’s chief. The decision is part of a broader pattern of the administration manipulating economic data. Last month, Senator Ruben Gallego (D-AZ) led colleagues in demanding answers after the BLS announced it would scale back Consumer Price Index (CPI) data collection.  Yesterday, the Bureau responded with vague reassurances that failed to answer the questions raised in the Senators’ letter.   The Wall Street Journal: Labor Department Skirts Senators’ Questions on Inflation Data [Matt Grossman, 8/1/25]  A group of Democratic senators pressed the Labor Department in June over concerns about missing data in

WASHINGTON – Today, following a response from Delta Air Lines to his letter demanding answers on the company’s use of AI to set individualized, surveillance-based fares, Senator Ruben Gallego (D-AZ) issued the following statement: “Delta is telling their investors one thing, and then turning around and telling the public another. If Delta is in fact using aggregated instead of individualized data, that is welcome news. But it still begs the question: why did their president brag to their investors about their desire to ‘get you the right offer in your hand at the right time’? “I urge Delta to offer clarification to the public and to shareholders on if the president