WASHINGTON, Feb. 13 -- Sen. Ruben Gallego issued the following press release:
Today, Arizona Senators Ruben Gallego and Mark Kelly responded to a new report (https://www.kelly.senate.gov/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/liheap-under-heat.pdf) from Duke University's Heat Policy Innovation Hub finding that an outdated federal assistance formula is leaving hot-weather states like Arizona systematically underfunded under the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP), even as extreme heat drives record energy costs for low-income families.
The report finds that historic underfunding of the LIHEAP program means that fewer than 20 percent of income-eligible households nationwide receive assistance each year. However, decades-old provisions in...