new Mexico Governor Michel Lujan Grisham In response to the recently implemented federal deduction, a package of bills was signed on Friday with the aim of reducing food aid, rural health care and public broadcasting.
The new law responds to the President Donald TrumpAlong with the large bill, it is also feared that health insurance rates will increase with the end of covid-era subsidy at the Affordable Care Act Exchange in New Mexico. Exchange subsidy is a major point of controversy in Washington budget deadlock and the shutdown of the concerned federal government.
Under the law signed by the Governor of New Mexico, if they are not renewed renewed, the New Mexico will separate $ 17 million.
Democratic-LED Legislature $ 162 million was approved in state expenditure on rural health care, food banks, public broadcasting and more on Wednesday and Thursday.
From this year, New Mexico hopes that the new federal tax deduction will reduce about $ 200 million annually. But there is still a large budget surplus in the state which is increasing rapidly in oil production.
“When the federal support decreases, the New Mexico moves,” Lujan Grisham said in a statement.
Many federal health care changes under Trump’s large bills do not kick 2027 or later, and later, and Democratic MLAs in New Mexico admitted that their bills are only one temporary bandage.