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Rubén Gallego is a Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives, representing Arizona's 7th congressional district since January 6, 2015. Born on November 20, 1979, he has focused on issues such as veterans' affairs, immigration reform, and education during his time in office. Gallego, a former Marine, has been an advocate for military families and has worked to improve access to healthcare for veterans. He has also been involved in efforts to address gun violence and climate change.
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October 8, 2025
The authority already is expired. Every day we delay, our cyber defenders have less information to work with, and Americans are less safe. This isn't a partisan issue.…
— Rubén Gallego
Mr. Gallego moves to commit the bill H.R. 1 to the Committee on Finance of the Senate with instructions to report the same back to the Senate in 3 days, not counting any day on which the Senate is not in session, with changes that-- (1)…
During the campaign, especially, talking to Latino men, you could tell they were financially hurting, but also psychologically hurting in the sense that they felt they were no longer able to provide for their families.
Prevent corporations from using Trump's reckless tariffs as an excuse to price gouge hardworking Americans.
People don't vote for a party, right? It's us that run as Democrats. We need to be the face of the party, and we need to be out there.
You have to get a lot of votes, and that means we're going to have to have alliances with people that we may not agree with 100% of the time, right?
I'm sure you guys heard like, 'Oh, well, the Democrats need to have their own Joe Rogan.' We had Joe Rogan. We canceled Joe Rogan years ago.
What happened the last election is that we got so pure, and we kept so pure that we started kicking people out of the tent.
Running for president has 'f---ing of course' crossed his mind, while insisting it’s not on his immediate radar.
They’re going to have to have the belief that Democrats are gonna be sane on border security, sane on immigration reform.
I think it’s a good thing that we have border crossings at the lowest point possible.
I think there’s still a lot of elements within our party that take a very knee-jerk reaction to border security and think that any type of border security is somehow acquiescing to the right.
They want to hear that there is a message that Democrats can deliver that can bring the party back to a winning situation — bring back working-class people, because that’s where we’re really getting f---ed and losing votes.
Big donors, big organizations, well-known political big Democratic operatives that have encouraged me to run. I’m not denying that.
The sequence of Trump's posts on social media and the market increase raised grave legal and ethics concerns.
We have to fight them down. We have to grind them to the point where they give up on this fight.
Let’s not kid ourselves. This is a bad resolution that gives Elon Musk and his cronies permission to continue cutting veterans’ benefits.
Look, if you’re running and you don’t have any other identity and you’re not known for fighting for people to have a decent living...
I invited Kyle to the State of the Union because I want Trump, Musk, and their DOGE minions to look him in the eyes and see the faces of the people their reckless chaos is hurting.
What they really care about is the fact that the price of eggs is so high. It’s hard to get a house.
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