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
The new legislation responds to President Donald Trump’s 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
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
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
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
\u201cWhen federal support falls short, New Mexico steps up,\u201d Lujan Grisham said in a statement.<\/p>\n
Many federal health care changes under Trump’s 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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) \u2014 New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham signed a package of bills Friday aimed…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":277290,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[143388,347,64,7824,57,325,330,210,1141,3270,9166,1142,2934,80,17051,121682,61,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-277289","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health-care","8":"tag-143388","9":"tag-article","10":"tag-business","11":"tag-coronavirus","12":"tag-general-news","13":"tag-government-budgets","14":"tag-government-programs","15":"tag-health","16":"tag-health-care","17":"tag-health-care-costs","18":"tag-health-care-industry","19":"tag-healthcare","20":"tag-legislation","21":"tag-politics","22":"tag-subsidies","23":"tag-u-s-government-shutdown","24":"tag-u-s-news","25":"tag-united-states","26":"tag-unitedstates","27":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115316274187650719","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=277289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277289\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/277290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}