Arizona’s Democratic members of the U.S. House of Representatives want the Defense secretary to close a military investigation into Arizona senior Sen. Mark Kelly.
U.S. Reps. Greg Stanton, Yassamin Ansari and Adelita Grijalva wrote this week in a letter to Pete Hegseth that they are strongly opposed to the investigation of Kelly.
Kelly is under official military review for appearing in a video urging troops to disobey illegal orders, which was wrongly labeled seditious by President Donald Trump.
The letter from Arizona Democrats says Kelly is a war hero practicing free speech. It tells Hegseth to stop calling Kelly and other lawmakers from the video a disparaging name because they keep receiving death threats.
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In a letter to new DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin, Gallego and Kelly say they’re writing to follow up on an original request from February — in which they asked the agency for more details about plans for a warehouse facility in surprise, and an old jail in Marana, just outside Tucson. -
Arizona state Senate and House Republicans met last week with members of the Trump administration to discuss solutions to the water crisis facing the Colorado River. -
The marijuana holiday 4/20 is on Monday. It falls about 10 weeks before the deadline to submit enough signatures so Arizona voters could decide in November whether to outlaw dispensaries. -
President Donald Trump showered praise on several Arizona candidates he’d already endorsed at a campaign event in Phoenix on Friday and gave shoutouts to several candidates for the first time. -
Arizona, which has a population of 7.6 million people, received $61 million through the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program in 2023 compared to $287 million for Michigan, population 10.1 million.
