1. The Biden-Harris policies have led to record costs for groceries, gas, housing and healthcare, and Ruben Gallego has supported it 100% of the time. (FiveThirtyEight, 1/3/23)
2. Ruben Gallego supports getting rid of the filibuster rule so far-left Democrats can easily pass their extreme agenda. (The Hill, 1/24/23)
3. Ruben Gallego will give the Democrats the 51^st and deciding vote in the U.S. Senate which would make New York Senator, Chuck Schumer the Senate Majority Leader.
4. Ruben Gallego says he will “not be on the hook” to lobbyists and special interests but has sponsored and voted for dozens of bills backed by his lobbyist wife. (Washington Free Beacon, 2/23/24)
5. Ruben Gallego has been an “open critic of corporate America’s work in Washington” and “slams opponents” for their ties to big business, yet his campaign has accepted tens of thousands from lobbyists, corporate PACs, and other special interests.
6. Ruben Gallego slammed Kyrsten Sinema for her donations from lobbyists yet has accepted $500,000 from lobbyists.
7. Ruben Gallego criticizes corporate America, yet has accepted over $1 million from corporate PACs, including from pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies that hiked prices on life saving drugs.
8. Ruben Gallego claims that tribal issues are a focus of his Senate campaign and promised he would “always fight for Indian Country” in October 2023. Yet, Gallego accepted thousands of dollars from mining company executives whose companies have damaged tribal land and hurt Native Americans.
9. Since launching his U.S. Senate campaign, Ruben Gallego has spent thousands of dollars of campaign donations on “luxury travel, private security and fancy restaurants” including “$3,000 on a luxury resort in Puerto Rico, $2,700 on private security, nearly $2,000 on fine dining in Washington, D.C.”
10. Ruben Gallego backed legislation that would have provided $3 billion in kickbacks for special interest groups under the guise of environmental and climate justice.

11. Ruben Gallego caused inflation and rising prices on everything from gas to groceries by voting for trillions in reckless government spending. Thanks to Gallego:
    12. Baby Food & Formula costs increased 30.5%
    13. Gasoline costs increased 48.7%
    14. Grocery costs increased 21.3%
    15. Healthcare costs increased 30%
    16. Shelter costs increased 21.5%
    17. Electricity costs increased 29.4%
    18. Car insurance costs increased 52.9%
    19. Diaper costs increased 48%

20. Thanks to Ruben Gallego, many seniors now can’t afford basic necessities. The high inflation Gallego caused is even making it more likely Social Security will go broke, causing a cut of over 20% in benefits that millions of Americans rely on to make ends meet. (Bipartisan Policy Center, 10/13/22)
21. Ruben Gallego supports a radical, socialist plan called the Green New Deal. Such a plan could kill up to 2 million American jobs and cost an average American family $165,000 and would continue to drive up inflation. (Heritage Foundation, 6/24/19)
22. Ruben Gallego voted for a bill that would raise gas prices by nearly $1 per gallon. (HR 2307, 10/10/21)
23. If Ruben Gallego gets his way, Arizonans will get punished with the largest tax increase in history. Gallego wants to hit the middle class, small businesses and even seniors with job killing tax hikes, including on 401k retirement plans and even pension funds for our police and teachers, costing hundreds of millions of dollars per year. (Forbes, 6/20/12)
24. Ruben Gallego voted for $20 billion in higher taxes on Arizona families but gave a massive tax break to his wealthy friends, like millionaires in California and New York. (New York Post, 8/15/22)
25. Ruben Gallego supported hiring 87,000 new IRS agents to audit and harass middle-class taxpayers.
26. Ruben Gallego pushed legislation that would increase the cost of farming and food production, resulting in the loss of 1.4 million American jobs. (Washington Examiner, 7/22/24)
27. Ruben Gallego supports the Biden-Harris administration’s proposed $5 trillion tax hike. (The Hill, 3/12/23)
28. Ruben Gallego has opposed tax cuts for the middle class.

29. Ruben Gallego is weak on border security and immigration issues, even admitting it’s not his “expertise.” (Washington Examiner, 7/11/24)
30. Ruben Gallego opposes securing the border, calling a border wall “stupid,” “dumb” and “useless.” (Business Insider, 7/12/17)
31. Ruben Gallego opposed legislation to increase the number of Border Patrol agents, despite warnings from a government watchdog calling the current methods of staffing at Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). (National Immigration Forum, 5/8/23)
32. Ruben Gallego has mocked Arizonans concerned that under the Biden-Harris administration, more than 11 million immigrants have illegally crossed our borders.
33. Ruben Gallego supports federally funding sanctuary cities – inviting criminals, drug dealers and terrorists into our neighborhoods. (H.R. 748, 1/30/17)
34. Ruben Gallego voted to allow non-U.S. citizens – including illegal immigrants and foreigners to vote in our elections. (H.J. Res. 24 #118, 2/9/23)
35. Ruben Gallego allowed our tax dollars to be spent on benefits and fancy hotel rooms for illegal immigrants.
36. Ruben Gallego voted to give handouts to illegal immigrants and supports Kamala Harris’ agenda to provide welfare and health care coverage for illegal immigrants. (Fox News, 5/3/24)
37. Ruben Gallego supports federal financial college aid for illegal immigrants.
38. Ruben Gallego denied that the border crisis is a national emergency. (Twitter, 1/5/19)
39. Ruben Gallego voted for mass amnesty for millions of illegal immigrants. (Yahoo! News, 12/3/21; H.R. 5376 #385, 11/19/21)
40. The Ruben Gallego-Biden-Harris policies have resulted in violent crime, sex trafficking, and potential terrorists entering America.
41. Ruben Gallego opposed the Remain in Mexico policy.
42. Ruben Gallego is “honored” to be endorsed by those who want to defund U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (I.C.E). (Washington Free Beacon, 2/14/24)
43. Ruben Gallego voted against legislation to deport illegal immigrants who assault police officers. (Washington Free Beacon, 5/16/24)
44. Ruben Gallego called Title 42, a COVID-era measure used under both the Trump and Biden administration to curb the influx of migrants at the border, “immoral and dangerous” and “not effective.” (Letter to Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, 2/23/21)
45. The Ruben Gallego-Biden-Harris policies have resulted in hundreds of thousands of drug overdose deaths.
46. Ruben Gallego thinks he can deceive Arizona voters with millions of dollars in advertising into thinking he’s tough on the border, but his long open border record speaks for itself. (Daily Caller, 8/10/23)
47. Ruben Gallego cares more about playing partisan politics than securing the border. Gallego was against President Trump’s deployment of troops to the southern border yet supported Biden doing the same. (Press Release, 4/3/18)

48. Ruben Gallego supports cashless bail, which would allow dangerous, violent criminals back out onto the streets without anything keeping them from leaving town so they can avoid facing justice and punishment. (ABC, 7/8/20)
49. Ruben Gallego said he was “honored” to be endorsed by those who want to Defund the Police. (Washington Free Beacon, 2/14/24)
50. Ruben Gallego has repeatedly sided with criminals, calling the police “bad guys” guilty of “systemic racism.”
51. Ruben Gallego has accepted thousands of dollars from groups that support defunding the police.
52. Ruben Gallego’s campaign is also funded by an heiress who co-founded and led a group of wealthy donors who fund progressive campaigns such as defunding the police. (Washington Free Beacon, 2/14/24)
53. Ruben Gallego co-sponsored legislation that would make incarcerated criminals and sex offenders eligible for federal tuition aid.
54. Ruben Gallego pushed to send nearly $1 billion in COVID stimulus payments to prison inmates and illegal immigrants.
55. Ruben Gallego has hired campaign staffers who proudly promote anti-police rhetoric on social media. (Fox News, 1/23/23)

56. Ruben Gallego was a director at a shady bank that reportedly defrauded immigrant families and Latinos in Arizona. Gallego made tens of thousands of dollars off the company, which was ultimately shut down amid the fraud allegations. (Arizona Republic)
57. Ruben Gallego abandoned his 9-month pregnant wife and married a lobbyist in Washington, D.C. whose employer has funded his political campaigns. (Deadbeat, 4/18/24)
58. Ruben Gallego broke the federal law aimed at stopping D.C. politicians like himself from insider trading. Gallego broke the law to hide up to $100,000 of his stock trading and investments from Arizonans. (Raw Story, 8/16/24)
59. Ruben Gallego used our taxpayer dollars to pay his own property taxes and utility bills, but he had no problem voting to raise taxes on Arizona families. (Washington Free Beacon, 12/13/23)
60. Ruben Gallego is supposed to represent Arizona, but he claimed Washington, D.C. as his primary residence, and rented out the only property he owned in Arizona. (Washington Free Beacon, 12/13/23)
61. Ruben Gallego voted to protect a close friend and donor’s company in which Gallego is invested. (Fox News, 5/9/23)
62. Ruben Gallego was a director for a company that faced a federal investigation for allegedly committing Medicare fraud in Arizona. Meanwhile, Gallego supports a plan that could harm seniors’ access to healthcare.
63. Despite being paid a taxpayer-funded salary of $174,000 per year (more than double the median household income in Arizona), Ruben Gallego skipped nearly 100 votes in the House, giving away his vote to other elected officials, and now wants voters to give him a promotion.
64. Ruben Gallego told voters he “didn’t come to Congress just to check in every day and vote on post offices, yet over the last decade that Gallego has served in Congress, only 3% of the bills he has introduced have become law. And one of those bills was, in fact, to name a post office.
65. Over his years in public office, Ruben Gallego has failed to disclose several positions and assets, each of which may constitute a separate violation of state and federal ethics rules.
66. Ruben Gallego has garnered a reputation for demeaning treatment of colleagues, especially women, and has had formal sexual harassment complaints filed against him.
67. During his time in the Arizona State Legislature, Ruben Gallego was referred to as “The Troll”; The “short stout man…would pop up at the weirdest times always demanding something.”
68. Ruben Gallego hired a felon convicted of embezzling money from a union to serve as a senior adviser to his Senate exploratory committee.

69. Ruben supports slashing over $800 billion from Medicare, endangering healthcare access for our seniors.
70. Ruben Gallego pushed for legislation backed by Bernie Sanders and “The Squad” that would have established a radical single-payer Medicare for All healthcare system. Medicare for All is so extreme that even Joe Biden opposed it and warned Americans it would end Medicare as we know it today. This extreme plan:

71. Would cost more than $32 trillion dollars.
72. Could have significantly increased taxes.
73. Could force rural hospitals like the seventeen in Arizona, to close their doors, threatening the health, jobs, and income of hardworking families in rural areas.
74. Could increase wait times and reduce access to care, a potential life-altering detriment for older Americans.
75. Would eliminate all private health insurance plans, as well as Medicare and Medicare Advantage, which is used by our seniors to pay for the medications they need. Medicare For All would also abolish Medicaid, the Children’s Health Insurance Program, Tricare, and the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program.

(HR 676, 4/6/17; Mercatus Center, 7/30/18)

76. Ruben Gallego supported cutting Medicare spending by $300 billion dollars and his plan led to higher Medicare premiums for seniors, including those relying on Medicare for their prescription drugs. (The Wall Street Journal, 4/14/24)
77. Ruben Gallego supports an extreme plan that could cause women to lose access to reproductive healthcare services, including birth control. Gallego’s plan could jack up healthcare costs for pregnant women and even put their lives in danger.

78. Ruben Gallego proudly joined the radical far left Congressional Progressive Caucus led by members of The Squad, frequently described himself as a “true progressive voice in Congress,” and campaigned to “elect the most progressive Congress and Senate.” (Washington Free Beacon, 3/7/24)
79. Self-described socialist Bernie Sanders has been an enthusiastic supporter of Ruben Gallego and proudly hosted a campaign rally for Gallego.
80. “Outspoken Arizona liberal,” Ruben Gallego has been a longtime supporter of Kamala Harris. Gallego even endorsed her 2020 Presidential bid in which Kamala proudly campaigned on radical, far-left progressive platform.
81. Ruben Gallego voted to allow biological male transgender athletes to compete against our daughters in high school and college sports.
82. Ruben Gallego co-sponsored legislation that would allow biological men who identify as a women to access women’s abuse shelters.
83. Ruben Gallego proudly touted his endorsement from a group that backs puberty blockers, transgender surgeries for minors.
84. Ruben Gallego pushed for legislation to allow our tax-dollars to be used in schools to promote or encourage sexual activity by underage students.
85. Ruben Gallego voted to allow states – including Arizona – to ban gas-powered cars.
86. Ruben Gallego is part of the problem in Washington. He supported the divisive impeachment of President Trump that tore our country apart.
87. Ruben Gallego refuses to condemn antisemitism at Harvard. (Washington Examiner, 12/13/23)
88. Ruben Gallego pushed to abolish voter ID laws and allow convicted felons and illegal immigrants to vote in our elections.
89. Ruben Gallego has downplayed political violence committed by extreme, left-wing groups like antifa, including during the destructive George Floyd riots. 
90. Ruben Gallego’s campaign is backed by an extreme, radical group dedicated to population control and whose founder believes that “abortion is a ‘highly effective weapon in the armory of population control.’”
91. Ruben Gallego supported a federal red flag gun law that would allow the government to seize every gun a person owns, depriving people of their rights, even those who have used their firearms for sport or self-defense.

92. Ruben Gallego voted against providing Israel, our strongest ally in the middle east, with emergency funding for its Iron Dome missile defense system as Hamas was targeting Israeli civilians. (HR 3237, 5/20/21)
93. Ruben Gallego voted against considering sanctions on Hamas as the Iranian-backed terrorist group fired thousands of missiles at Israel. Ruben Gallego has also refused to condemn the radical Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement targeting Israel.
94. Ruben Gallego supported the dangerous Iran Nuclear Deal and voted against expanding and strengthening existing U.S. sanctions against Iran related to its ballistic-missile program. (Gallego Press Release, 9/9/15)
95. Ruben Gallego has refused to respond to questions about his votes and public statements about either providing aid to the Hamas terrorist group or denying aid to Israel.
96. Ruben Gallego celebrated the 249th anniversary of the United States Army by voting against the 2025 National Defense Authorization Act which includes a nearly 20% pay raise for junior enlisted members.