WASHINGTON – Senator Ruben Gallego (D-AZ) joined all Banking Committee Democrats in sending a letter to Acting Director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) Russell Vought raising concerns about new evidence that he plans to illegally shut down the CFPB. The agency has returned over $21 billion directly to Americans cheated or scammed by Wall Street and giant corporations, and a federal court has issued a preliminary injunction prohibiting a shutdown. In a recent interview, however, Vought announced that he plans to “close down” the CFPB “within the next two or three months.”   “These comments are particularly concerning given that a federal court has specifically

WASHINGTON – Today, Senator Ruben Gallego (D-AZ) and 15 Senate colleagues wrote to U.S. Trade Representative Ambassador Greer calling out the Trump administration’s harmful and undeveloped plan to import more beef from Argentina, which will harm American ranchers.   “We write in strong opposition to the Administration’s undeveloped plan to increase imports of Argentinian beef,” the Senators wrote. “This announcement has already had tangible market impacts felt by cattle producers across the country, at a time when cattle producers are looking for long-term stability to rebuild their herds. Rather than reward Argentina’s president and agricultural producers, we encourage you to focus on policies that support American farmers and ranchers

WASHINGTON – Senator Ruben Gallego (D-AZ) sat down with NBC’s Kristen Welker on Meet the Press yesterday to talk the latest on the ongoing Republican-led government shutdown and Democrats’ fight to keep costs from rising for 24 million Americans, Trump’s illegal and reckless military strikes in the Caribbean, and the president’s ‘main priority’ right now, destroying the East Wing. Watch the conversation here and read excerpts below: On Democrats’ fight to prevent health care premiums from doubling for millions of Americans: “Our focus right now is to keep costs low. You just heard Secretary Bessent and he had this long economics professor explanation about inflation right now.