WASHINGTON – Senator Ruben Gallego (D-AZ) is co-sponsoring the Stop Arming Cartels Act to stop the flow of American-made firearms into the hands of Mexican drug cartels. An estimated 200,000 to 500,000 American-made guns are trafficked into Mexico annually, often through unlicensed gun dealers, straw purchasers, and thefts from federal firearms licensees. Between 2014 and 2018, more than 9,000 guns recovered in Mexico and Central American after violent crimes were traced to gun stores in Arizona.   “For too long, weak gun laws have put guns in the hands of cartels and fueled the violence that threatens our border and our border communities,” said Senator Gallego. “I’m taking action to

WASHINGTON – Senator Ruben Gallego (D-AZ), a member of the Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee, and Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA),Ranking Member of the Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee and member of the Senate Armed Services Committee led a letter to Secretary of the Department of Defense (DoD), Pete Hegseth, calling for an investigation into whether landlords may be using property management software company RealPage’s services to price gouge military families.  RealPage is accused of contributed to excessive rental costs in several places where DoD raised housing allowances, including in Arizona by landlords in the Phoenix Metro area, home to Luke Air Force Base, and Tucson, home

WASHINGTON – Today, Senators Ruben Gallego (D-AZ), Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV), John Hoeven (R-ND), and Mike Rounds (R-SD) reintroduced their bipartisan Bridging Agency Data Gaps & Ensuring Safety (BADGES) for Native Communities Act to support the recruitment and retention of Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) law enforcement officers, bolster federal missing persons resources, and give Tribes and states tools to combat violence.   “Every Arizonan deserves to feel safe, and that includes those living on Tribal lands,” said Senator Gallego. “Too often, cases go unsolved or uninvestigated because Tribal law enforcement lack the staffing and resources they need. This commonsense, bipartisan bill will go a long way in addressing those needs,