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- New Mexico governor signs bills to counter federal cuts, support health care and food assistance</p>
<p>MORGAN LEE October 4, 2025 at 3:37 AM</p>
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<p>New Mexico Republican state Senate Minority Leader Bill Sharer of Farmington, N.M., speaks at the opening of a special legislative session in Santa Fe, N.M., Wednesday, Oct. 1, 2025. (AP Photo/Morgan Lee)</p>
<p>SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — 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>
<p>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>
<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>
<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>
<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>
<p>"When federal support falls short, New Mexico steps up," Lujan Grisham said in a statement.</p>
<p>Many federal health care changes under Trump's big bill don't kick in until 2027 or later, and Democratic legislators in New Mexico acknowledged that their bills are only a temporary bandage.</p>
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