Congress & Federal.

We are now two hundred days into the second Trump administration, and the early outlines of its policies are beginning to take shape in New Mexico. Cuts to the Forest Service. Small business loan programs frozen. Clean energy initiatives shut down. Medicaid and SNAP reductions poised to hit thousands. As the administration’s budget and trade policies take effect, the impacts on rural communities are becoming clear.

it’s especially painful — and infuriating — when Texas Governor Greg Abbott dismisses questions about recent failures to fund emergency warning systems as “loser talk.” It’s a pattern. When 21 people — 19 students and two educators — were killed in Uvalde, Abbott insisted it wasn’t the time to talk about law enforcement failures or gun safety. “Thoughts and prayers” were supposed to suffice.