Legislation would extend and enhance lending and credit to more Americans WASHINGTON – Senator Ruben Gallego (D-AZ) backed bipartisan legislation to strengthen and expand Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFI), which play a critical role in bringing capital and financial services to a wide range of small businesses, homeowners and housing developers. The CDFI Bond Guarantee Program Improvement Act will extend authorization of the CDFI Bond Guarantee Program, while making it more reliable and accessible to smaller CDFIs. By expanding and improving a successful program that operates at no cost to taxpayers and allows CDFIs to access long-term, stable funding, the legislation will jumpstart economic development and address

WASHINGTON – Today, Senators Ruben Gallego (D-AZ), Mark Kelly (D-AZ), Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV), and Jacky Rosen (D-NV) sent a letter to General Services Administration (GSA) Acting Administrator Stephen Ehikian and other officials demanding answers on a reported plan to cancel the lease for the NLRB Region 28 Phoenix office, which investigates unfair labor practices and protects the right of workers to act together.   “The office is vital for workers who seek to exercise their rights under the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) to collectively join together to bargain for higher wages, better benefits, and safer workplaces,” the Senators wrote. “As we have seen with regard to DOGE’s chaotic and ill-informed

“Finite ICE resources should be focused on removing individuals who pose genuine threats to public safety, such as gang members and violent offenders, not people complying with the law.” WASHINGTON – Today, Arizona Senators Ruben Gallego and Mark Kelly and Representatives Greg Stanton (AZ-04) andYassamin Ansari (AZ-03) demanded answers from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the U.S. Immigration Customs Enforcement (ICE) following reports that ICE abruptly detained multiple individuals who were attending their scheduled immigration court hearings in Phoenix last week.   READ MORE: ‘Troubling’: Arizona’s US lawmakers demand answers over ICE courthouse arrests “As lawmakers representing a border state, we know firsthand the impact that decades of federal inaction have had