Press Releases
Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFIs) help provide affordable capital to communities that otherwise would not have access WASHINGTON – Senator Ruben Gallego (D-AZ) and a bipartisan group of 24 U.S. Senators are pushing back against the Trump Administration’s efforts to shrink the Community Development Financial Institutions Fund (CDFI Fund). In a letter to Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, […]
WASHINGTON – Today, Arizona Senators Ruben Gallego and Mark Kelly announced that the Hopi Tribe has been awarded $4,165,796 from the Department of Energy to deploy a 250-kW solar powered microgrid that will power two wells at the remote, unelectrified Side Rock well field on the Hopi Reservation. These wells will deliver water to the villages of Upper and Lower Moenkopi […]
ARIZONA – Senator Ruben Gallego (D-AZ) made his first visit to Cochise County since being elected to the U.S. Senate where he heard directly from Arizonans on border security, cuts to Medicaid, and veterans programs. Senator Gallego started the day at the Raul Hector Castro Port of Entry in Douglas, where he met with local leaders […]
Senators’ Major Richard Star Act would provide combat-injured veterans with full earned disability compensation and retirement pay WASHINGTON – Senator Ruben Gallego (D-AZ), a Marine combat veteran and member of the Senate Veterans’ Affairs Committee, backed the Major Richard Star Act—bipartisan legislation to provide combat-injured veteran retirees their full benefits. Currently, only veterans with disability ratings […]
PHOENIX – Today, Arizona Senators Ruben Gallego and Mark Kelly hosted a town hall in Phoenix to hear directly from Arizonans about the real-life consequences of Republican-led efforts to cut Medicaid. These proposed cuts would strip health care from working families, seniors, and people with disabilities in order to give tax breaks to the wealthy and big corporations. Senators […]
WASHINGTON – Senator Ruben Gallego (D-AZ) and 37 Senate colleagues wrote to Secretary of Education Linda McMahon expressing outrage at the administration’s reckless and illegal firing 1,300 workers at the U.S. Department of Education — over half of its workforce — which will devastate America’s public education system and impact students across the country. “At a time […]
Bill would protect veterans, military spouses, and VA employees targeted in DOGE’s cuts WASHINGTON – In response to President Donald Trump’s mass terminations of federal veteran employees and attempts to slash Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) care and benefits, Senator Ruben Gallego (D-AZ) and members of the Senate Veterans’ Affairs Committee, introduced the Putting Veterans First Act —comprehensive legislation to protect veterans, […]
Sen. Gallego, bipartisan colleagues introduced the legislation in January WASHINGTON – Today, the Senate passed the bipartisan Halt All Lethal Trafficking of (HALT) Fentanyl Act, backed by Senator Ruben Gallego (D-AZ). The legislation permanently classifies fentanyl-related substances (FRS) as Schedule I drugs under the Controlled Substances Act and gives law enforcement the tools they need to keep extremely lethal and […]
WASHINGTON – Senator Ruben Gallego (D-AZ) and Bill Cassidy (R-LA)introduced the bipartisan Social Security Overpayment Relief Act to limit the Social Security Administration’s (SSA) overpayment lookback period to ten years. This bill protects Social Security recipients – including 1.4 million Arizonans – from the burden of having to pay back funds that arise from overpayment errors on the part […]
WASHINGTON—Senator Ruben Gallego (D-AZ) released the following statement on the passing of Congressman Raúl Grijalva (AZ-07). “Congressman Grijalva was not just my colleague, but my friend. As another Latino working in public service, I can say from experience that he served as a role model to many young people across the Grand Canyon State. He spent his […]