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,

WASHINGTON – Senator Ruben Gallego (D-AZ) joined a group of Democratic senators in demanding answers from the Trump Administration about the uncertainty faced by Head Start programs in Arizona as a result of the recent federal aid freeze. Head Start programs connect 17,284 of Arizona’s most disadvantaged children with vital opportunities for early learning and development. While the White House later clarified that Head Start would not be targeted by the funding freeze and the OMB later rescinded memo, Head Start programs were temporarily unable to access their allocated federal funds, leaving teachers and staff without pay and threatening access to childcare for working families.  “Head Start

“These findings raise significant concerns that landlords are profiteering by taking taxpayer money that is intended to support military families.” 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. “Our military families already sacrifice so much to serve our nation, often having to