{"id":876139,"date":"2025-10-07T23:17:49","date_gmt":"2025-10-08T04:17:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/07\/new-mexico-gov-michelle-lujan-grisham-boosts-food-assistance-amid-federal-cuts\/"},"modified":"2025-10-07T23:17:49","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T04:17:49","slug":"new-mexico-gov-michelle-lujan-grisham-boosts-food-assistance-amid-federal-cuts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/07\/new-mexico-gov-michelle-lujan-grisham-boosts-food-assistance-amid-federal-cuts\/","title":{"rendered":"New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham boosts food assistance amid federal cuts"},"content":{"rendered":"<div xmlns:xlink=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/1999\/xlink\">\n<div>\n<p>\n                <bsp-timestamp data-timestamp=\"1759541857000\" data-recent-thresholdinhours=\"1\"><br \/>\n                    <template data-date-tpl>Updated [hour]:[minute] [AMPM] [timezone], [monthFull] [day], [year]<\/template><br \/>\n                    <span data-date>\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n                <\/bsp-timestamp>\n            <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>    <bsp-page-actions><\/p>\n<p>    <\/bsp-page-actions><\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) \u2014 New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham signed a package of bills Friday aimed at shoring up food assistance, rural health care and public broadcasting in response to recently enacted federal cuts.<\/p>\n<p>The new legislation responds to President Donald Trump\u2019s big bill as well as fear that health insurance rates will rise with the expiration of COVID-era subsidies to the Affordable Care Act exchange in New Mexico. Exchange subsidies are a major point of contention in the Washington budget standoff and related federal government shutdown.<\/p>\n<p>New Mexico would set aside $17 million to backfill the federal credits if they are not renewed, under legislation signed by the governor.<\/p>\n<p>The Democratic-led Legislature met on Wednesday and Thursday to approved $162 million in state spending on rural health care, food assistance, restocking food banks, public broadcast and more.<\/p>\n<p>Starting this year, New Mexico expects to lose about $200 million annually because of new federal tax cuts. But the state still has a large budget surplus thanks to booming oil production.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen federal support falls short, New Mexico steps up,\u201d Lujan Grisham said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Many federal health care changes under Trump\u2019s big bill don\u2019t kick in until 2027 or later, and Democratic legislators in New Mexico acknowledged that their bills are only a temporary bandage.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> Morgan Lee <br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/new-mexico-health-care-food-assistance-2e217cc910fa3759e8c37deff3735186\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Updated [hour]:[minute] [AMPM] [timezone], [monthFull] [day], [year] \u00a0 SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) \u2014 New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham signed a package of bills Friday aimed at shoring up food assistance, rural health care and public broadcasting in response to recently enacted federal cuts. The new legislation responds to President Donald Trump\u2019s big bill as<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":876140,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24857,2232],"tags":[8301,8620],"class_list":{"0":"post-876139","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mexico","8":"category-michelle","9":"tag-mexico","10":"tag-michelle"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/876139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=876139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/876139\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/876140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=876139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=876139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=876139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}