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April 22, 2024
The Gallego-secured funding will help reduce homelessness in Arizona PHOENIX — Today, Rep. Ruben Gallego (AZ-03) toured UMOM New Day Center’s Family Shelter Expansion and Remodel Project and presented UMOM with a ceremonial $1.98 million check for the community project funding Rep. Gallego secured for the shelter. “Ending Arizona’s homelessness crisis requires an all-encompassing approach, and I was proud to fight for UMOM’s Family Shelter Expansion and Remodel Project to increase the number o… Continue Reading
April 20, 2024Today, Rep. Ruben Gallego (AZ-03) voted against H.R. 3602. Following the vote, he released this statement: Statement from Rep. Ruben Gallego (AZ-03) “Once again, performative politicians put forth a bill that fails to address Arizona’s border crisis — which is why I could not support it. This bill purposefully leaves out the solutions Arizona vitally needs to secure our border — hiring judges, providing resources for border communities, and fixing our broken asylum system. “We need a real bip… Continue Reading
April 20, 2024Today, Rep. Ruben Gallego (AZ-03), Ranking Member of the House Armed Services Subcommittee on Intelligence and Special Operations, voted to provide critical aid to U.S. allies and partners in Ukraine, Israel, and the Indo-Pacific. Following the vote, he released this statement: Statement from Rep. Ruben Gallego (AZ-03) “Around the world, we are seeing a struggle between democracy and autocracy that threatens America and our interests. As supporters of freedom, it is vital to our national secur… Continue Reading
April 17, 2024
Many seniors have struggled to keep pace with rising expenses. Rep. Ruben Gallego, D-Ariz., has introduced legislation that could increase their monthly benefits by requiring the Social Security Administration to use a different inflation-calculation formula. Gallego’s Boosting Benefits and COLAs for Seniors Act in the House of Representatives would set cost-of-living adjustments using a measure known as CPI-E, or the Consumer Price Index for Americans 62 years of age and older. Social Security… Continue Reading
April 14, 2024Rep. Ruben Gallego (D-Ariz.) said any solutions besides codifying abortion rights would be insufficient to combat the near-total abortion ban from 1864 that may be implemented in Arizona. “The damage is done,” Gallego...told NBC News on Sunday. “Any initiative they pass right now wouldn’t even take effect for quite a while.” The Arizona Supreme Court decided Tuesday that the 1864 abortion criminalization law could go into effect and sent it back to a lower court to hear arguments. The law woul… Continue Reading
March 14, 2024PHOENIX — Representative Ruben Gallego has sent a letter to the Federal Trade Commission urging them to investigate alleged rental market price fixing by landlords and the software company RealPage. Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes announced in February that her office is suing software company RealPage along with multiple landlords over what her office calls an "illegal price-fixing conspiracy." There are nine major Phoenix and Tucson area landlords named as defendants in the suit, includi… Continue Reading