WASHINGTON — Senator Ruben Gallego (D-AZ) and 41 Senate colleagues called on Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Secretary Scott Turner to immediately halt reported plans to make drastic changes to the Continuum of Care (CoC) program, which could result in nearly 200,000 Americans being forced out of their housing and back into homelessness. Maricopa County stands to lose $32 million in federal aid and nearly 1,400 housing units under the policy changes. The senators called on Secretary Turner to instead use the authorities that Congress already gave him to expeditiously renew existing CoC grants for fiscal year 2025 to prevent massive disruption and frightening uncertainty

WASHINGTON — Senator Ruben Gallego (D-AZ) and 41 Senate colleagues called on Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Secretary Scott Turner to immediately halt reported plans to make drastic changes to the Continuum of Care (CoC) program, which could result in nearly 200,000 Americans being forced out of their housing and back into homelessness. Maricopa County stands to lose $32 million in federal aid and nearly 1,400 housing units under the policy changes. The senators called on Secretary Turner to instead use the authorities that Congress already gave him to expeditiously renew existing CoC grants for fiscal year 2025 to prevent massive disruption and frightening uncertainty

WASHINGTON – Today, during a Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee hearing, Senator Ruben Gallego (D-AZ) pressed Bureau of Land Management (BLM) officials on the agency’s staffing shortages, Arizona renewable energy projects, and Tribal partnerships. Watch Senator Gallego’s questioning HERE. In his opening remarks, Senator Gallego underscored the dangers of BLM’s staffing crisis, which undermines Arizona’s land management goals. “We’ll get to some of the Arizona questions specifically, but first I want to point out an underlying challenge that impacts every potential use of public lands, which is staffing,” said Senator Gallego. “Regardless of what use you’d like to see BLM lands go to, you need BLM staff to get