WASHINGTON – Senator Ruben Gallego (D-AZ) is pushing back against efforts to erase Native American veterans’ contributions to U.S. military history. Per capita, Native Americans serve in the military at the highest rate, five times the national average. Native veterans have fought in every major armed conflict, and erasing their service is a dishonor to all who have worn the uniform. Recently, mentions of Ira Hayes — a revered Gila River Marine veteran who helped raise the flag at Iwo Jima in 1945 — and Lori Ann Piestewa — a Hopi Army veteran who killed in combat in Operation Iraqi Freedom — were removed from the Department of Defense (DoD) website.

Following multiple letters and close communication between Senator Gallego and the Administration, federal Colorado River conservation funds are once again flowing to projects across Arizona PHOENIX – Today, Senator Ruben Gallego (D-AZ), a member of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, celebrated the restoration of millions of dollars in Colorado River conservation funding that had previously been frozen by the Trump Administration. The funding restoration comes after Senator Gallego sent multiple letters and spoke with the Administration about reversing the funding freeze. “I’d like to thank the Department of Interior and Bureau of Reclamation for having open lines of communication and for listening when I explained how this funding freeze

Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFIs) help provide affordable capital to communities that otherwise would not have access WASHINGTON – Senator Ruben Gallego (D-AZ) and a bipartisan group of 24 U.S. Senators are pushing back against the Trump Administration’s efforts to shrink the Community Development Financial Institutions Fund (CDFI Fund). In a letter to Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, the senators criticized the executive order signed late Friday night, warning that cutting the CDFI Fund would harm small businesses, homeowners, and local economies across the country.  The CDFI Fund boosts economic growth in largely underserved communities that lack traditional access to financing, creating a public-private partnership to promote access