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Gallego, Bipartisan Colleagues Push Back Against Trump’s Executive Order to Cut Funding for Community Development Financial Institutions
Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFIs) help provide affordable capital to communities that otherwise would not have access WASHINGTON – Senator Ruben Gallego (D-AZ) and a bipartisan group of 24 U.S. Senators are pushing back against the Trump Administration’s efforts to shrink the Community Development Financial Institutions Fund (CDFI Fund). In a letter to Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, the senators criticized the executive order signed late Friday night, warning that cutting the CDFI Fund would harm small businesses, homeowners, and local economies across the country. The CDFI Fund boosts economic growth in largely underserved communities that lack traditional access to financing, creating a public-private partnership to promote access
Gallego, Kelly Announce Over $4 Million For Hopi Tribe to Advance Energy and Water Independence
WASHINGTON – Today, Arizona Senators Ruben Gallego and Mark Kelly announced that the Hopi Tribe has been awarded $4,165,796 from the Department of Energy to deploy a 250-kW solar powered microgrid that will power two wells at the remote, unelectrified Side Rock well field on the Hopi Reservation. These wells will deliver water to the villages of Upper and Lower Moenkopi via a pipeline that is currently in development as part of the ongoing Side Rock Water Supply project and will replace the current water source which is projected to be insufficient for community needs by 2025. “I’m excited to announce that the Hopi Tribe has been awarded over $4
ICYMI: Senator Gallego Visits Cochise County; Highlights Efforts to Support Veterans, Protect Medicaid and Secure the Border
ARIZONA – Senator Ruben Gallego (D-AZ) made his first visit to Cochise County since being elected to the U.S. Senate where he heard directly from Arizonans on border security, cuts to Medicaid, and veterans programs. Senator Gallego started the day at the Raul Hector Castro Port of Entry in Douglas, where he met with local leaders to discuss the need for modernized border infrastructure and the economic impact of cross-border trade. “I hope people will continue to push for investments at the border. We all benefit as a state, as a country, with a strong Douglas and a strong Southern Arizona economy,”said Senator Gallego. Gallego