Press Releases

WASHINGTON – Today, Senator Ruben Gallego (D-AZ) reintroduced the Access to Credit for our Rural Economy (ACRE) Act with Senators Jerry Moran (R-KS), Angus King (I-ME), Roger Marshall (R-KS), Kevin Cramer (R-ND), and Tommy Tuberville (R-AL). This legislation would benefit American families, farmers and rural communities nationwide by providing greater flexibility to more financial institutions to offer affordable lines of credit to […]

WASHINGTON – Senator Ruben Gallego (D-AZ) joined Senators Mazie Hirono (D-HI), John Boozman (R-AR), and Tommy Tuberville (R-AL), members of the Senate Veterans Affairs Committee, to reintroduce the Veteran Fraud Reimbursement Act. This legislation would make it easier for veterans with disabilities to be made financially whole in the event they are defrauded of their benefits by allowing the […]

WASHINGTON – Ahead of President Trump’s joint Congressional address last night, Senator Ruben Gallego (D-AZ) discussed how President Trump’s policies are affecting Arizonans, including his guest for the joint address, Kyle Rahn, a disabled Army veteran and federal worker who was recently fired due to Elon Musk’s DOGE cuts to the federal workforce. Senator Gallego also discussed some areas […]

WASHINGTON — Today, Senator Ruben Gallego (D-AZ) joined Democratic Senators from the three Lower Colorado Basin states in urging the Department of the Interior to immediately lift its freeze of Inflation Reduction Act funding for the Lower Colorado River System Conservation and Efficiency Program. The Senators criticized the Trump Administration’s day-one executive order halting all Inflation Reduction Act disbursements, including […]

WASHINGTON – Senator Ruben Gallego (D-AZ), a Marine Corps combat veteran and member of the Senate Veterans’ Affairs Committee, joined a group of Democratic senators urging the Trump Administration to protect the Veterans Crisis Line (VCL) from deep staffing cuts at Veterans Affairs (VA) and return to office orders that will impact this critical service for veterans […]

PHOENIX – This weekend, Senator Ruben Gallego (D-AZ) hosted a roundtable discussion with leaders of healthcare organizations to examine the potentially devastating cuts to Medicaid and their far-reaching impact on Arizona families and health care providers. This comes after Senator Gallego has been hearing directly from Arizonans on how they would be affected by these cuts. See coverage below:  On the […]

PHOENIX—Today in Phoenix, Senator Ruben Gallego (D-AZ) hosted a roundtable discussion with leaders of healthcare organizations to examine the potentially devastating cuts to Medicaid and their far-reaching impact on Arizona families and healthcare providers.  This comes as earlier this week, House Republicans passed a Budget Resolution that instructs the Energy and Commerce Committee to make $880 billion in […]

WASHINGTON – Today, Senator Ruben Gallego (D-AZ) announced that Arizonan Kyle Rahn, a disabled veteran and federal worker who was recently fired due to Elon Musk’s DOGE cuts to the federal workforce, will accompany him to watch President Trump’s State of the Union address in Washington, D.C. on Tuesday, March 4th.   Kyle Rahn, a North Phoenix resident, is […]

PHOENIX – Last night, Senator Ruben Gallego (D-AZ) spoke to over 3,000 Arizonans during his first telephone town hall. Sen. Gallego was able to hear directly from constituents about their concerns over threats to Social Security and Medicaid, housing prices, and federal layoffs.  “Last night made it clear that the dangerous game being played by Donald Trump and […]

WASHINGTON – Yesterday, Senator Ruben Gallego (D-AZ) joined The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell to discuss  his first speech on the Senate floor on his resolution condemning the United States’ rejection of a United Nations resolutiondenouncing Russia’s illegal invasion of Ukraine.  “The fact that the Donald Trump will one day call Zelensky a dictator and then the other day claim that he never […]