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Ruben Gallego: “The average house in Arizona is around $500,000.”

Featuring: Ruben Gallego, Democratic | U.S. Senate, Arizona

Ruben Gallego: Politics & Eggs 09/22/25

Published August 26, 2025 | Video Starts at 09:30

The prices of groceries are going up. Housing is nearly impossible for you to get your first house, especially if you don't already own a house. The average house in Arizona is around $500,000. And the average person, the average age of someone buying a house in Arizona is nearing 4. (09:30–09:35)

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Ruben Gallego

“In Arizona, there's 315,000 more registered Republicans than Democrats.”
Ruben Gallego: Politics & Eggs 09/22/25 | Uploaded August 26, 2025 | 19:11-19:17
“We estimate it was probably close to 80,000 voters that voted for Trump and then voted for [me, Ruben] Gallego.”
Ruben Gallego: Politics & Eggs 09/22/25 | Uploaded August 26, 2025 | 21:33-21:33
“In Arizona, 65% of our land is either tribal or federal land.”
Ruben Gallego: Politics & Eggs 09/22/25 | Uploaded August 26, 2025 | 34:18-34:23
“I have 22 federally recognized tribes.”
Ruben Gallego: Politics & Eggs 09/22/25 | Uploaded August 26, 2025 | 34:28-34:32
“It takes 60 votes to pass an appropriations. Only takes 51 votes for a rescission.”
Ruben Gallego: Politics & Eggs 09/22/25 | Uploaded August 26, 2025 | 36:35-36:42
“Yesterday the Russian air force purposely bombed a US Electronics company in deep, deep Ukraine.”
Ruben Gallego: Politics & Eggs 09/22/25 | Uploaded August 26, 2025 | 41:19-41:28
“Between 2034 and 2031, you know, is the first time we're not going to be able to pay full Social Security entitlements.”
Ruben Gallego: Politics & Eggs 09/22/25 | Uploaded August 26, 2025 | 47:52-48:00
“The working class of America is just hurting right now.”
Ruben Gallego: Politics & Eggs 09/22/25 | Uploaded August 26, 2025 | 08:59-09:04
“The prices of groceries are going up.”
Ruben Gallego: Politics & Eggs 09/22/25 | Uploaded August 26, 2025 | 09:21-09:25
“Housing is nearly impossible for you to get your first house, especially if you don't already own a house.”
Ruben Gallego: Politics & Eggs 09/22/25 | Uploaded August 26, 2025 | 09:24-09:31
“The average age of someone buying a house in Arizona is nearing 40.”
Ruben Gallego: Politics & Eggs 09/22/25 | Uploaded August 26, 2025 | 09:35-09:40
“This is probably the first administration in the history of the country that is going to purposefully do some really harmful things to its…”
Ruben Gallego: Politics & Eggs 09/22/25 | Uploaded August 26, 2025 | 09:57-10:11
“Medicaid, for example, is one of the biggest providers of addiction therapy both in Arizona and New Hampshire.”
Ruben Gallego: Politics & Eggs 09/22/25 | Uploaded August 26, 2025 | 10:13-10:21
“The population that's most likely to actually get cut from Medicaid will be that population that uses [addiction therapy].”
Ruben Gallego: Politics & Eggs 09/22/25 | Uploaded August 26, 2025 | 10:22-10:28
“We have people right now that are actually taking out loans to pay for groceries.”
Ruben Gallego: Politics & Eggs 09/22/25 | Uploaded August 26, 2025 | 10:33-10:37
“People still trying to live off their credit cards.”
Ruben Gallego: Politics & Eggs 09/22/25 | Uploaded August 26, 2025 | 10:39-10:43
“They [Latino men] now feel that they're worse off than they were during the Biden administration.”
Ruben Gallego: Politics & Eggs 09/22/25 | Uploaded August 26, 2025 | 11:03-25:04
“The Democratic politicians were certainly lying to themselves that things were getting better.”
Ruben Gallego: Politics & Eggs 09/22/25 | Uploaded August 26, 2025 | 12:22-12:27
“In Arizona, it was an R +11 year.”
Ruben Gallego: Politics & Eggs 09/22/25 | Uploaded August 26, 2025 | 19:20-19:26
“When the rest of the country was trying to ignore the issue of fairly bad problem when it came to illegal immigration, we talked about it…”
Ruben Gallego: Politics & Eggs 09/22/25 | Uploaded August 26, 2025 | 20:35-20:48
“The Democrats have a national brand problem, which is going to leak into voter registration.”
Ruben Gallego: Politics & Eggs 09/22/25 | Uploaded August 26, 2025 | 21:51-21:55
“A lot of them [Latino men] were going to not vote and some of them were going to turn around and vote for Donald Trump.”
Ruben Gallego: Politics & Eggs 09/22/25 | Uploaded August 26, 2025 | 22:29-23:53
“There's a lot of buyers remorse with that population of voters [Latino men].”
Ruben Gallego: Politics & Eggs 09/22/25 | Uploaded August 26, 2025 | 24:42-24:48
“I'm for a national gerrymandering ban and I have supported in the past and I'll continue going forward in supporting going forward also.”
Ruben Gallego: Politics & Eggs 09/22/25 | Uploaded August 26, 2025 | 26:33-26:43
“You're going to have higher unemployment, you're going to have people that are going to be, you know, off Medicaid.”
Ruben Gallego: Politics & Eggs 09/22/25 | Uploaded August 26, 2025 | 27:20-27:26
“You're going to have hospitals are going to be shutting down, especially rural parts of this country.”
Ruben Gallego: Politics & Eggs 09/22/25 | Uploaded August 26, 2025 | 27:26-27:30
“They're going to borrow close to $3 trillion to pay for this.”
Ruben Gallego: Politics & Eggs 09/22/25 | Uploaded August 26, 2025 | 27:42-27:46
“Donald Trump is pushing the norms that normally would kind of bind all the senators to work together.”
Ruben Gallego: Politics & Eggs 09/22/25 | Uploaded August 26, 2025 | 29:46-29:52
“We just passed one of the largest housing packages at bipartisan manner in the country.”
Ruben Gallego: Politics & Eggs 09/22/25 | Uploaded August 26, 2025 | 30:03-30:11
“I have been in support of reforming the filibuster before and still am for that.”
Ruben Gallego: Politics & Eggs 09/22/25 | Uploaded August 26, 2025 | 30:29-30:37
“Those 22 federally recognized tribes are entirely dependent on the federal government.”
Ruben Gallego: Politics & Eggs 09/22/25 | Uploaded August 26, 2025 | 34:39-34:45
“Susan Collins is losing absolute respect altogether from her colleagues because they don't trust her anymore.”
Ruben Gallego: Politics & Eggs 09/22/25 | Uploaded August 26, 2025 | 36:58-37:07
“If we shut down the government, those plows don't go out, water doesn't move.”
Ruben Gallego: Politics & Eggs 09/22/25 | Uploaded August 26, 2025 | 38:51-38:57
“They literally went and cut close to a couple billion dollars worth of programs from my state.”
Ruben Gallego: Politics & Eggs 09/22/25 | Uploaded August 26, 2025 | 39:50-39:59
“It was a horrible foreign policy blunder for the president to meet on US Soil with a terrorist like Putin.”
Ruben Gallego: Politics & Eggs 09/22/25 | Uploaded August 26, 2025 | 40:44-40:54
“The President is extremely unprepared for the world stage and or he just doesn't again, doesn't have a real focus about how to prioritize…”
Ruben Gallego: Politics & Eggs 09/22/25 | Uploaded August 26, 2025 | 43:28-43:41
“Netanyahu has, my opinion, weakened Israel in where they are in terms of status of the world.”
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“Netanyahu is also purposely trying to make the US Israel relationship a purely partisan thing.”
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“Kids are starving in Gaza.”
Ruben Gallego: Politics & Eggs 09/22/25 | Uploaded August 26, 2025 | 45:24-45:27
“There's absolute violence happening from the settlers community. They actually are. They're attacking Americans.”
Ruben Gallego: Politics & Eggs 09/22/25 | Uploaded August 26, 2025 | 45:37-45:44
“We're asking now for the administration to actually start putting sanctions on these individual settlers.”
Ruben Gallego: Politics & Eggs 09/22/25 | Uploaded August 26, 2025 | 45:45-45:49
“We don't have as many workers as we used to. And, you know, certainly our current immigration policy is not going to help that either.”
Ruben Gallego: Politics & Eggs 09/22/25 | Uploaded August 26, 2025 | 47:23-47:33
“The cap on Social Security is moving up slowly, but not Catching not enough to capture everything.”
Ruben Gallego: Politics & Eggs 09/22/25 | Uploaded August 26, 2025 | 47:42-47:50
“The way to fix it is to just lift the cap, like, get rid of the cap. And that basically takes care of the problem for a good 50 years.”
Ruben Gallego: Politics & Eggs 09/22/25 | Uploaded August 26, 2025 | 48:17-48:30
“If you take [Social Security] away from [people], you're dooming them to poverty.”
Ruben Gallego: Politics & Eggs 09/22/25 | Uploaded August 26, 2025 | 49:06-49:12
“The numbers show that if we raise the cap or take away the cap, that we will stabilize Social Security.”
Ruben Gallego: Politics & Eggs 09/22/25 | Uploaded August 26, 2025 | 49:24-49:30