In The News
Nick Mordowanec [3/9/26] New legislation introduced in Congress would require the Veterans Affairs (VA) secretary to designate the department’s medical facilities as “innovative therapies centers of excellence,” which would include increasing federal funding to study the therapeutic uses of psychedelics for veterans, according to a copy of the legislation shared with Military.com. The “Innovative Therapies […]
OLIVIA TOBIAS & BRANDON MESSICK [4/3/26] Read the article here. Veterans make up 12% of Kingman’s population, so there is always local concern regarding the well-being of the people who served our country, and the legislation that could impact them. U.S. Senator Ruben Gallego came to Kingman on Wednesday, April 1 where he held a […]
Alex Bitter [3/27/26] Drivers for Uber and DoorDash need a higher tax deduction to deal with high gas prices, one US senator says in a new letter. Democratic Sen. Ruben Gallego, who represents Arizona, called on Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Thursday to raise the per-mile deduction that taxpayers can take if they use a car for business […]
David Shepardson [3/24/26] Read the article here. Democratic Senator Ruben Gallego on Tuesday introduced legislation to give more than 100,000 Homeland Security Department employees a 10% bonus for time worked without pay since a partial government shutdown began in mid-February. DHS workers — including 50,000 Transportation Security Administration airport security officers — are set to […]
Ben Geman [3/17/26] Read the article here. Sen. Ruben Gallego (D-Ariz.) is pressing the Energy Department for details on plans to provide oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve as pump prices rise. Why it matters: Gallego’s new letter to Energy Secretary Chris Wright, viewed first by Axios, shows how the energy effects of the Iran war are spilling into Capitol […]
Morgan Chalfant and Burgess Everett [3/12/26] Read the article here. Sen. Ruben Gallego, D-Ariz., wants the Trump administration to renegotiate parts of the US-Mexico-Canada trade agreement. In a letter shared first with Semafor that will be sent to President Donald Trump and US Trade Representative Jamieson Greer today, Gallego argued that the current version of the pact […]
Ron Hansen [3/4/26] Read the article here. Sen. Ruben Gallego condemned the State Department as “powerless” to help most Americans stranded in the Middle East while noting help for “Trump-aligned social media influencers” in escaping the region. In a March 4 letter to Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Gallego, D-Arizona, said his agency had failed […]
Lauren Fox and Sarah Ferris [3/5/26] Read the article here. Rep. Eugene Vindman is among a generation of young Democrats who ran for Congress, in part, because of their experience fighting a forever war in the Middle East. These Democrats are some of the earliest and most vocal critics of President Donald Trump’s decision to […]
Alex Miller [2/26/26] Read the article here. FIRST ON FOX: A Senate Democrat is demanding that the Trump administration refund billions in tariff revenue to Americans following last week’s Supreme Court decision, according to a letter first obtained by Fox News Digital. Sen. Ruben Gallego, D-Ariz., wrote in a letter to President Donald Trump charging that he was […]
Ben Giles [2/11/26] Read the article here. Before Donald Trump’s inauguration in January, Republicans in Congress were already hard at work fulfilling the president’s campaign promises. Some Arizona Democrats were aghast that their own party leaders had a hand in one of those accomplishments. In the U.S. House, Democratic Rep. Greg Stanton helped pass the […]