Senator Gallego: “Trump just showed us a master class in insider trading. This is corruption at the highest level.” WASHINGTON – Yesterday, Senators Ruben Gallego (D-AZ) and Adam Schiff (D-CA) demanded answers about possible violations of federal ethics and insider trading laws tied to President Trump’s sudden change in tariff policy. Today, Senator Gallego also called on the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to launch an investigation into whether Trump, his family, or insiders like Elon Musk were tipped off ahead of the President’s surprise decision to pause some of his steep, across-the-board tariffs.   That announcement triggered a stock market surge that gave $304 billion to the world’s richest people in a single

WASHINGTON – Today, Arizona Senators Ruben Gallego and Mark Kelly urged President Donald Trump to expedite the completion and maintain full funding to modernize land ports of entry in Arizona to lower wait times and stem the flow of illegal drugs. In particular, the senators highlight the San Luis Port of Entry modernization project, the construction of a new commercial Port of Entry in Douglas, the renovation of the Raul H. Castro Port of Entry, and a feasibility study for the modernization of the Nogales-Dennis DeConcini Port of Entry.   While Congress has dedicated funding and the federal government has already awarded contracts for these projects, recent cuts to the

WASHINGTON – Today, Senator Ruben Gallego (D-AZ) and a group of 20 Senate colleagues called on the Trump administration and its so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) to stop their harmful attacks to the Social Security Administration (SSA).   This comes in the wake of the Trump administration’s repeated actions to weaken the SSA, which include staffing cuts, plans for indiscriminate closures of field offices around the nation, and limits to phone services. These cuts are upending the lives of older adults and people with disabilities who rely on the Social Security benefits that they have earned to pay their rent, purchase groceries, and afford medical bills. “The