Raging Moderates with Scott Galloway and Jessica Tarlov
Senator Ruben Gallego on Signalgate, Veteran Protections & Winning Male Voters
26 Mar 2025
Arizona Senator Ruben Gallego joins Jessica to break down the leaked war planning Signal chat—calling for Secretary Hegseth’s resignation. He also discusses the growing Democratic infighting over party leadership and shares what he’s hearing on the ground at town halls across Arizona, where he’s warning voters about potential cuts to Medicaid and veterans’ benefits. Plus, what Democrats need to do to win back male voters and why his Putting Veterans First Act is crucial for protecting those who served. Follow Jessica Tarlov, @JessicaTarlov. Follow Sen. Gallego, @SenRubenGallego. Follow Prof G, @profgalloway. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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Welcome to Raging Moderates. I'm Jessica Tarlow, and I'm thrilled to have Arizona Senator Ruben Gallego with us. Senator Gallego hasn't been in the Senate long but is already making a splash. He's been holding town halls across rural Arizona where he's been talking about the potential cuts to Medicaid and veterans' benefits and what that could mean for everyday folks.
On top of that, he's pushing forward with the Putting Veterans First Act, a bill that aims to help veterans get back into their federal jobs if they lose them. Senator Gallego, it's great to have you on the show.
Thanks for having me.
It's a big pleasure of mine. I've been waiting a long time in life to be able to talk to you. And I feel like it's the perfect moment on the news of the day front to talk about the Jeffrey Goldberg Atlantic piece where the editor-in-chief was invited into the war planning signal chat. I've seen some of the comments you've posted on X, even saying that Secretary Hegseth needs to resign over this.
Can you talk a bit more about how you're feeling and what you're thinking about it?
Yeah, I mean, when I first saw this, I was like, WTF? Like, it's just like one of those things that you never can imagine actually being real. Like, it's something that came out of Veep. The problem is like, this is like real serious shit. Like, this is not. We should be very concerned for a couple reasons. Number one, it wasn't just like a signal chat.
It was a signal chat of basically our whole national security team. We had people that were overseas commenting on this signal chat. And for us that have been involved, I was the past chairman of Intel Special Operations, we know how our enemies have some very good signal gathering capability. And we don't know how far it went and how far it goes when it comes to this group.
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