WASHINGTON – Today, Senator Ruben Gallego (D-AZ) and a group of 20 Senate colleagues called on the Trump administration and its so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) to stop their harmful attacks the Social Security Administration (SSA).   This comes in the wake of the Trump administration’s repeated actions to weaken the SSA, which include staffing cuts, plans for indiscriminate closures of field offices around the nation, and limits to phone services. These cuts are upending the lives of older adults and people with disabilities who rely on the Social Security benefits that they have earned to pay their rent, purchase groceries, and afford medical bills. “The changes

WASHINGTON – Arizona Senators Ruben Gallego and Mark Kelly, alongside Representatives Greg Stanton (D-AZ-4) and Yassamin Ansari (D-AZ-3), responded to two new reports released by the Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System (AHCCCS) and the Arizona Chamber Foundation outlining the devastating impact that Medicaid cuts proposed by Trump and Republicans would have on Arizona families, seniors, people with disabilities, and the state’s health care system.   The two reports show that nearly two million Arizonans rely on Medicaid for health coverage—including more than 750,000 children, over 72,000 seniors and people with long-term care needs, and hundreds of thousands of low-income adults, many of whom work in industries like food service, caregiving,

After President Trump previewed his delay of tariffs on Truth Social, Gallego and Schiff raise alarm on potential for self-enrichment by Trump family and White House officials who knew of impending announcement WASHINGTON — Today, Senators Ruben Gallego (D-AZ) and Adam Schiff (D-CA) demanded that the White House provide information about potential violations of federal ethics and insider trading laws prior to President Donald Trump’s announcement yesterday pausing the implementation of some of his previously announced steep and widespread tariffs or prior to previous announcements of changes in tariff policy.  The Senators also demanded that the Office of Government Ethics (OGE) investigate potential conflicts of interest, including whether any White House or