‘We need guardrails’: Gallego doubles down on DHS funding fight over ICE reforms

By: Gloria Rebecca Gomez

Outlets: Arizona Mirror

Published: February 28, 2026

Words: 1,049

Last Updated: 4 months, 2 weeks ago

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Arizona Senator Ruben Gallego says Congressional Democrats will continue refusing to fund the U.S. Department of Homeland Security unless reforms to Trump’s immigration crackdown are adopted.

“We, of course, want DHS, TSA, FEMA to be funded,” he said, during a Friday afternoon news conference at his Phoenix office. “But funding an agency that is already funded at $175 billion — more than the Marine Corps — that killed two American citizens, that’s engaging in …

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