Senator from Arizona. Iraq War Veteran USMC 0311/0341. Hispanic/Latino. Father of Michael, Isla & Cooper. Husband to @syd_gallego
Phoenix, Arizona
Joined June 2009
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Ruben Gallego retweeted
Running a campaign as an underdog against an entrenched incumbent in a deep red state is hard.
Running a campaign where you are underfunded is even harder.
Running a campaign where you are underfunded because people repeatedly say you have no shot is even harder than that.
Running a campaign as a Black man in a state with decades of seemingly immovable racial polarization is even harder than that.
Running a campaign where history rests heavily on your shoulders — in a state where the last Black U.S. Senator was born a slave, with the specter of segregation, Jim Crow, Emmett Till, Medgar Evers, and countless more looming — is even harder than that.
It takes a fearless candidate, a tireless campaign team, and a perfect storm to get here.
Congratulations to Scott, his family, his team, and to the state of Mississippi on this monumental achievement.
They also need to voluntarily stop all shipments to the potential pass thru companies that China set up since @CommerceGov has decided to be useless.
Immigrant veterans risked their lives to protect our freedoms. The president needs to bring them home, then work with Congress to fix our broken immigration system. We owe it to these heroes and their families.
He sold out our national security to keep the stock market high.
NEW: The world is wondering why the Trump administration has not taken action against the company at the center of suspected Nvidia chip smuggling and an espionage scandal involving CEO Jensen Huang.
Six high-level sources all pointed to one administration official who they say has repeatedly stood in the way: Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick.
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Never leave a man or woman behind. Next Congress, let’s keep that promise to our immigrant veterans.
PabloReports: What’s your message to the Trump administration about the deported veterans?
Gallego: We’re so good when we’re in the military, when we always say we never leave a man or woman behind. You know, that includes our veterans that are serving and these are veterans that are here with legal permanent residency, green cards. But as soon as they’re out, you know, a lot of times they get in trouble because of their service-connected injury and/or PTSD, and then we just kind of discard them.
The minimum that the president could be doing right now, by executive order, is to say that we’re not going to be deporting veterans. And doing that, I think, could go a long way to kind of creating that trust that maybe there can be some work done.
Ruben Gallego retweeted
This Veterans Day, advocates are raising awareness about traumatic brain injury and the impact of these types of wounds on the post-9/11 military generation. cbsn.ws/488tMLA
Ruben Gallego retweeted
My message to Democrats: Now is not the time to celebrate, it is the time to work for people who are hurting. Latinos voted for immigration reform and if that is not made a priority, in 2028 you will lose the gains you made this election cycle.
Ruben Gallego retweeted
Happy Veterans Day!
To everyone who has ever worn the uniform: thank you for your service and sacrifice. And to my Lima 3/25 brothers: Semper Fi.
The AI tech lords lost the election. The American public has spoken they want the safe and sane regulation of AI.
Ruben Gallego retweeted
Rogue AI agents are accessing bank accounts and colluding with one another to defy their human-given instructions. We MUST act on regulation as soon as we possibly can before more disasters strike.
Who is paying for this influence campaign? China, @nvidia ?
No amount of money donated to the White House ballroom is worth the US losing its competitive edge to China. @howardlutnick why is Commerce asleep at the wheel?
Wow, the Commerce Dept still hasn't banned the company tied to the suspected Chinese spy from buying advanced AI chips.
Before this was a news story, I guess there's some argument for not tipping anyone off by blocking the company, but not doing it now?
Nvidia also says it stopped selling to the company for over a year, but Megaspeed is STILL listed as an Nvidia Cloud Partner.
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Ruben Gallego retweeted
Wow, the Commerce Dept still hasn't banned the company tied to the suspected Chinese spy from buying advanced AI chips.
Before this was a news story, I guess there's some argument for not tipping anyone off by blocking the company, but not doing it now?
Nvidia also says it stopped selling to the company for over a year, but Megaspeed is STILL listed as an Nvidia Cloud Partner.
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SCOOP - US commerce department delays decision on #Megaspeed’s possible inclusion on trade blacklist
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Ruben Gallego retweeted
Exclusive: A Chinese university with deep ties to the People's Liberation Army bought Nvidia's powerful H200 AI chips last month despite being on a US export blacklist, procurement records show, highlighting gaps in Washington's efforts to curb China's access to advanced technology reut.rs/3XiUfni
Ruben Gallego retweeted
Absolutely insane that the Department of Commerce still refuses to place Megaspeed on the Entity List, despite knowing it is run by Chinese spies. It's difficult to draw any other conclusion from this than that Commerce leadership is just utterly uninterested in protecting US national security. Totally disqualifying.
Also, Megaspeed is undoubtedly only the tip of the iceberg. Commerce needs to urgently fix the gaping hole in US export controls that Southeast Asia represents, and at a minimum impose a license requirement for the entire region, and likely for all large-scale orders to untrusted companies like Megaspeed. The fact that Commerce refuses to even block shipments to companies known to be running by Chinese spies is a total dereliction of duty.
And Nvidia claims that they placed Megaspeed on their "block list" and stopped shipping to them in 2025. But if that's the case, why is Megaspeed still listed on Nvidia's website as an official cloud partner? And did Nvidia also stop shipping to Speedmatrix, Megaspeed's subsidiary in Malaysia? This denial doesn't add up at all.
SCOOP - US commerce department delays decision on #Megaspeed’s possible inclusion on trade blacklist
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Ruben Gallego retweeted
🚨 BREAKING: Gov. Shapiro to increase the minimum wage to $15 an hour in Pennsylvania.
Republicans have blocked this for over 20 years.
They want to make it even harder for kids to eat. Come January, we’ll use our power and leverage to fight back.
USDA policy shift would cut millions of people off food aid program politi.co/4endL83
