WASHINGTON – Senator Ruben Gallego (D-AZ) backed the bipartisan Combating Organized Retail Crime Act of 2025 to crack down on flash mob robberies and intricate retail theft schemes. The legislation would establish a coordinated multi-agency response and create new tools to tackle evolving trends in organized retail theft.   “Organized retail theft is a growing threat to Arizona’s businesses, workers, and families,” said Senator Gallego. “When criminal rings target our stores, it drives up prices, puts workers at risk, and hurts small businesses just trying to get by. I’m proud to support this bipartisan legislation to crack down on these crimes and keep Arizona safe.”  According to the National

ARIZONA – Last week, Senator Ruben Gallego (D-AZ) made his first visit to Northern Arizona since being elected to the U.S. Senate, where he heard directly from Arizonans about the impacts of the potential cuts to Medicaid, Trump’s trade war, and ongoing threats to veterans’ programs. Senator Gallego kicked off his visit on Thursday with a town hall on the Yavapai Apache Nation to hear directly from Arizonans about the real-life consequences of Republican-led efforts to cut Medicaid and strip health care from families across Northern Arizona. This was the Senator’s third Save Medicaid town hall in the state. Gallego listens to concerned Arizonans at a Save

Joint Economic Committee report finds that over 31,000 Arizonans access addiction treatment through Medicaid WASHINGTON – Today, Arizona Senators Ruben Gallego and Mark Kelly, alongside Representatives Greg Stanton (D-AZ-04) and Yassamin Ansari (D-AZ-03), responded to a new report released by the Joint Economic Committee Minority warning that proposed Medicaid cuts by President Trump and Republicans would threaten addiction treatment access for thousands of Arizonans and undermine the state’s efforts to combat the ongoing fentanyl crisis.   According to the report, more than 31,000 Arizonans receive gold-standard treatment for opioid use disorder through Medicaid, known in Arizona as AHCCCS—and over 22,000 of those members are covered solely because of Arizona’s Medicaid expansion program. State law