Massive Medicaid Coverage Losses
 

• New Mexico would lose nearly $11 billion in federal funds.

• Per capita, New Mexicans rely on Medicaid at the highest rate in the country.

• There are 836,000 New Mexicans enrolled in Medicaid, about 40% of the state, and just under half of those patients are children.

• ~175,000 New Mexicans could lose Medicaid because of the Act, more than 10% of the state’s enrollees.

• In NM’s Congressional District 2 nearly 40,000 people stand to lose Medicaid.

​Rural Hospital Apocalypse
 

• At least 15 rural hospitals in NM are threatened with closure.  Six of these hospitals are in CD2 including:

  • Eastern New Mexico Medical Center in Roswell

  • Lovelace regional Hospital in Roswell

  • Carlsbad Medical Center

  • Covenant Health Hobbs Hospital in Hobbs

  • Socorro General Hospital

  • Mimbres Memorial Hospital in Deming

• Other rural hospitals may be forced to stop providing certain specialized services, including obstetric, mental health, and emergency room care.

• NM residents in rural areas live an average of 10.5 miles from the nearest hospital — twice as far as urban residents — making closures especially impactful for emergency and maternity care.

• Closing rural hospitals forces patients into already-strained urban hospitals, increasing wait times and risks of outbreaks such as measles.

• Rural NM communities could face total collapse—without hospitals, entire towns will lose not just healthcare, but jobs, stability, and future growth; some rural areas may not recover at all if a hospital shuts down

SNAP Cuts Worsen Hunger and Poverty, with Economic Ripple Effects
 

SNAP cuts will take food from the mouths of kids and families.

• 21% of NM residents are enrolled in SNAP; in FY 2022 492,516 people in 258,863 households.

• In 2024, NM received more than $1.2 billion of SNAP federal funding into the state’s economy, supporting more than 1,700 retailers across New Mexico.

• The SNAP cuts  will raise food costs for the one in five New Mexico households receiving benefits.

• 457,000 New Mexicans will see lower benefit checks.  About 90,000 – 100,000 could lose food assistance.

• The changes in work requirements will mean that 28,000 people in households with older adults and 27,000 people in households with children ages 10-17 in NM would be at risk of losing some amount of their SNAP benefits.

• Current exemptions to the work requirements for veterans will be eliminated.

•  Combined Medicaid and SNAP cuts could cost New Mexico tens of thousands of jobs; the state’s unemployment could spike by 1.7 points, while GDP and tax revenue shrink reducing funding for education and infrastructure.

Medicare Cuts

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New Mexico has nearly 463,000 Medicare enrollees—about 20% of the state. 

• Medicare’s ability to negotiate drug prices will exclude some of the most expensive medications

• Lawfully present non-citizens who worked and contributed payroll taxes for the required number of years will no longer be eligible for benefits (this group includes refugees,  people granted asylum, people with Temporary Protected Status, and survivors of human trafficking

• It will be harder and more complicated for low income people to get subsidies that make prescription drugs more affordable

​The Affordable Care Act Gets Less Affordable

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A total of 193,000 New Mexicans have enrolled in comprehensive health coverage health through the ACA marketplace, and about 84% of them received an advanced premium tax credit to help them pay their premium.

• The open enrollment period was shortened by one month, which will make it harder to sign up

• Enrollees will need to update information annually, including income and immigration status, or risk losing coverage. 

• Automatic re-enrollment is also eliminated, requiring manual re-enrollment every year or risk losing coverage. 

• Limiting the availability of tax credits could lead to higher premiums and potentially increasing out-of-pocket costs. Some provisions would eliminate financial protections for those who misestimated their income when enrolling.

Planned Parenthood Defunded

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• Eliminates funding for basic care including pap smears, breast cancer screenings, STI tests, and birth control medication.

• NM CD2's only Planned Parenthood center, in Las Cruces, will be forced to close. So will the other four centers in the state--Albuquerque, Santa Fe, Rio Rancho and Farmington

Clean Energy on the Chopping Block

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• A rollback of tax credits will stall advanced energy projects and lead to a decrease in electricity generation capacity in New Mexico, potentially raising wholesale electricity costs and household energy bills.

•  EV credit ends Sept 30, 2025; home energy credits end Dec 31, 2025; wind/solar business credits end July 2026; EV charger credit ends June 2026; hydrogen credit limited to starts before end of 2027. 

• NM will lose out on private investment in clean energy, causing lost jobs  from factory closures and construction halts, and significant losses to the state's economy. ​

• Meanwhile, oil and gas extraction are prioritized above other uses of public lands and resources, potentially limiting the discretion of agencies to prioritize other uses like timber, water, recreational and scenic values. 73% of New Mexicans oppose efforts to reduce opportunities for public input on what takes place on public lands, including oil and gas development. 

Historic Increase for Immigration Enforcement 

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Overall, the Big Ugly Murder Bill provides $170.7 billion in funding for immigration- and border enforcement-related activities to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and its sub-agencies, as well as for the Department of Defense  for activities related to the military’s presence along parts of the southern border. That means us, residents of NM CD2!

• Our district's southern border is now largely militarized as a "national security area."

• Funding for ICE detention will be at least $14 billion per year. By comparison, the entire Federal Bureau of Prison’s budget was $8.6 billion in FY 2025.

• Our district has a detention facility in Chaparral; these are managed by private operators under contract for ICE. Imagine what their profits will cost the taxpayers. The largest facility in the country will be a 5,000 bed tent camp in nearby Fort Bliss, costing the federal government about $1.26 billion. 

Higher Education Assistance Slashed​

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• The law makes sweeping cuts to higher education aid such as student loans and Pell Grants

• Repayment plans based on income are Replaced by a one-size-fits-all program increases costs for all current borrowers. 

• The phase-out of the SAVE ACT, an income based repayment program designed to make federal loan payments more affordable, will cost 40,300 New Mexicans $2,700 to $4,100 more each year. 

• 44,156 New Mexicans currently receiving Pell Grants with an average award of $4,667 in 2024 , are at risk of losing this aid with the new limits on Pell Grant eligibility.

Massive Tax Cuts for the Wealthy and Huge National Deficit Increase

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• The average tax payer earning $1 million or more a year would receive about $90,000 in tax breaks

• The average New Mexican family earning less than $50,000 would get under $300 in tax cuts in 2027, less than $1 a day.