Ariz. lawmakers urge Congress: ‘Help rural America’ in next aid effort
Downtown Superior on March 20, 2019
Arizona lawmakers are calling on Congress to prioritize rural Americans in the next round of coronavirus legislation.
The pandemic has widened America’s “urban-rural divide,” according to Rep. Tom O’Halleran, a Democrat who represents the sprawling 1st District in the eastern half of the state. If Congress doesn’t take drastic steps to support rural Americans, it will “once again leave rural Arizona, and rural America, behind,” he wrote in a recent letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.).
Democratic Rep. Ruben Gallego agreed.
“There still has to be a lot more done in order to help rural America,” he told Arizona Mirror Tuesday.
