WASHINGTON, Feb. 24 -- Sen. Ruben Gallego issued the following press release:
Today, Senator Ruben Gallego (D-AZ) joined Senate Democratic leaders' State of the Union press conference ahead of President Trump's address today.
Read Senator Gallego's remarks below:
"What we're going to hear tonight is very simple. This president has made this country sicker and poorer. And if you look at every way that has occurred, it has been deliberate.
"Number one, what did this president do as soon as he got in? He went right after Medicaid and started cutting the most vulnerable people in this country.
"And I'm not talking just people in our urban areas. Rural Arizona - I traveled through rural Arizona, and I was talking to some of our hospital sys...