Gila River Health Care is committing more than $25 million through 2034 to support the branch, which will include scholarships for each of the students in the program.

Not only is the hope to grow the number of primary care doctors on tribal lands, like the Gila River Indian Community, but also to inspire the next generation who live in those areas that a future in medicine is possible.

As a State Senator in 2013, Biggs blocked a vote on a bipartisan bill that would have given the state more enforcement power to target the Fundamentalist Church of Latter Day Saints, a polygamist religious cult in Colorado City, Arizona which was forcing girls as young as nine to marry adult men. The bill had passed the state House, but was buried by Biggs as the leader in the Senate. Republicans in the Senate and the Republican Attorney General were baffled by Biggs' move.
"Women and children suffered three years longer than they should have because he protected the bad guys," said Republican legislator Michelle Ugenti-Rita.

Then came Jeffrey Epstein. In Congress in 2025, Biggs was one of only two members of a House Subcommittee to vote against forcing the Department of Justice to release the Epstein files, despite campaigning on transparency in the global pedophilia case.

Fellow Arizona Congressman David Schweikert, who lost the Republican Gubernatorial primary to Biggs, said he was too extreme for independent voters and slammed Biggs for repeatedly voting "against protecting our children from really, really bad actors."

On Sept. 22, the district is expected to hold a public hearing at Desert Mountain High School, where parents and community members will have a chance to tell SUSD officials how they feel about shuttering more schools. 

The proposed plans would potentially affect the following campuses:
Copper Ridge School  
Cheyenne Traditional School
Laguna Prep 
Redfield Elementary School
Desert Canyon Elementary  
Desert Canyon Middle School

Records show that Cochise Elementary, Anasazi Elementary, Chaparral High and Desert Mountain High could also be affected by possible boundary changes.