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Ruben Gallego: “We don't have as many workers as we used to. And, you know…”

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

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Ruben Gallego: Politics & Eggs 09/22/25

Published | Video Starts at 47:23

And certainly a lot of Americans will feel uncomfortable if we put any amount of their savings into, like, an ETF or anything of that, of that sort. There's a couple of problems having with Social Security that can be fixed, but number one, 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. And that's one way we should try to fix this, is to have more workers here legally working. Number two, you know, the cap on Social Security is moving up slowly, but not Catching not enough to capture everything. (47:23–47:33)

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Asserts that the current immigration policy is not helping the worker shortage.

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