Gallego joins Bloomberg, Discusses Path Forward on Immigration Reform, Slams Nvidia CEO for Jeopardizing National Security

WASHINGTON — This week, Senator Ruben Gallego (D-AZ) joined Kailey Leinz on “Bloomberg: Balance of Power” to discuss the path forward on a bipartisan agreement on immigration reform and efforts to address the affordability crisis, ending the war in Iran, Pete Hegseth’s failed leadership at the Pentagon, reports that Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang potentially threatened U.S. national security and congressional efforts to conduct oversight, and prospects for crypto market structure legislation in the lame duck session. WATCH: Bloomberg: Balance of Power On the potential for a bipartisan agreement on immigration reform: “The American public wants some level of compromise and work on both sides, specifically to focus on the cost of living, ending this stupid war, and then dealing with immigration and immigration enforcement. “The president has publicly announced that he wants to do comprehensive immigration reform. I’m willing to compromise and work with him on that, and I think a lot of us are. But then to put someone like Stephen Miller in charge, it sends some very mixed signals in that regard. We’re still going to try. I think the American public wants us to come up with compromises, work to bring down the cost of living, work to bring some level of immigration enforcement and reform at the same time. But there’s a lot of mixed signals coming from the Republican side on this.” On the Iran War: “We first have to look at what is actually happening in Iran and what are our options to end the war. “We will look at everything on the table, in addition to obviously funding or not funding [the war]. But I’m not going to preclude any options right now. The American public was very clear: this war is something they do not want and it’s driving costs up every day for Americans.” On Pete Hegseth’s impeachment :“He has committed high crimes and misdemeanors. “My biggest issue with Pete Hegseth, besides the fact that he’s consistently lying, is the fact that they have clearly violated the War Powers Resolution.  We have clearly been engaging in combat. They [the administration] keep starting and stalling, trying to go around us, and I think that right there is aa violation of the Constitution… and gives us good grounds for him to be impeached. “Service members think about him [Pete Hegseth] as a political appointee. He is a political appointee, a horrible political appointee. But he is not a service member anymore.” On threats posed to U.S. national security with respect to Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang: “We do need to be worried about whether some chips ended up going to China that gave them a competitive edge. “I have been opposed to some of our advanced chips from going there [to China]… Any time we send anything over there, the Chinese are just going to copy, copy, copy until they can perfect it. There’s no reason for us to make it easier for them to do that.” On prospects for crypto market structure legislation: “Nothing is going to happen between now and the end of the year.”