Press Releases
WASHINGTON – Senator Ruben Gallego (D-AZ), a Marine combat veteran, helped secure key priorities for service members and veterans in Arizona and nationwide in this year’s Senate Military Construction and Veterans Affairs (MilCon-VA) Appropriations bill, one of three bills included in the first funding package advanced by the Senate for fiscal year 2026 (FY26). The legislation includes Gallego-led […]
Ag bill includes more than $2.7 million for rural Arizona fire, police, and flood protection projects and major investments in food assistance, rural housing, Tribal colleges, and water infrastructure WASHINGTON – Today, Arizona Senators Ruben Gallego and Mark Kelly announced that they advanced major investments for Arizona communities in the Senate’s annual Agriculture and Rural Development funding bill, including six […]
WASHINGTON – Just hours after the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) released a disappointing jobs report, President Trump announced he was firing the agency’s chief. The decision is part of a broader pattern of the administration manipulating economic data. Last month, Senator Ruben Gallego (D-AZ) led colleagues in demanding answers after the BLS announced it would scale back Consumer Price Index (CPI) data […]
WASHINGTON – Today, following a response from Delta Air Lines to his letter demanding answers on the company’s use of AI to set individualized, surveillance-based fares, Senator Ruben Gallego (D-AZ) issued the following statement: “Delta is telling their investors one thing, and then turning around and telling the public another. If Delta is in fact using aggregated instead of individualized data, that […]
WASHINGTON – Senator Ruben Gallego (D-AZ) led colleagues in demanding answers from Delta Air Lines CEO Ed Bastian after the company announced its plans to ramp up use of AI to set individualized, surveillance-based fares. Their plan not only presents data privacy concerns but will likely increase prices up to each individual consumer’s personal ‘pain […]
WASHINGTON – Senator Ruben Gallego (D-AZ) joined a bipartisan group of Senators in a letter to Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Director Russell Vought, urging swift action to disburse congressionally-appropriated funding from the Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFI) Fund. The letter calls for transparency and timeliness in deploying the $324 million allocated in the Fiscal […]
WASHINGTON – Senator Ruben Gallego (D-AZ), a member of the Senate Veterans’ Affairs Committee and a Marine combat veteran, supported legislation to make certain the rate of disability compensation and other financial benefits from the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) for veterans and military survivors keep pace with rising costs and inflation. The Veterans’ Compensation Cost-of-Living […]
WASHINGTON – Senator Ruben Gallego (D-AZ) introduced a resolution reaffirming that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has no authority to arrest, detain, interrogate, or deport U.S. citizens. “ICE exists to enforce immigration law, so it should be a no-brainer: U.S. citizens can’t be detained by ICE. But in Trump’s America, citizens are being thrown into […]
WASHINGTON – Senator Ruben Gallego (D-AZ) supported the Stop the Scammers Act to restore critical Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) funding and authorize the CFPB to reward whistleblowers who report wrongdoing. This legislation follows the passage of the Republican tax bill, which slashed CFPB funding in half and removed vital protections for victims of scams and fraud […]
In Absence of Transparency from the Trump Administration and Action from Congressional Republicans, Committee Democrats Assert Oversight Authority WASHINGTON—Senator Gallego (D-AZ), Democratic members of the Homeland Security and Governmental Security Committee, and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) are pressing the Justice Department to fulfill President Trump’s promise to provide transparency to the American people by releasing […]