Heinrich, Luján Statement on President Trump’s 2027 Budget

Heinrich, Luján: “Trump’s budget is a slap in the face to working families in New Mexico”
WASHINGTON– U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), a member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, and U.S. Senator Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.), a member of the Senate Committee on Finance and Senate Budget Committee, released the following statement on President Trump’s Fiscal Year 2027 (FY27) budget request, which will hurt New Mexico families by slashing funding for programs that help them afford the basics, all to fund the largest military spending request in history.
“This budget is a slap in the face to New Mexico families. Right now, New Mexicans are paying over $4 a gallon on gas and up to 13 percent more on their electricity bills. Instead of doing something about that, President Trump wants to slash the programs that help working people, all to fund the largest military spending in history. That’s not putting ‘America first’.
“After already gutting Americans’ health care to finance tax breaks for billionaires and expand an out-of-control ICE, the President is now pushing a budget that would drive up the cost of energy, groceries, housing, and child care even more; strip away programs that help families afford the basics like heating their homes and putting food on the table; eliminate housing assistance and force more Americans out of their homes; slash funding for public schools and make it harder for students to afford college; gut lifesaving medical research and mental health care; and abandon rural communities, farmers, and small businesses. It would also restrict access to America’s public lands and make communities more vulnerable to threats from extreme weather events.
“The President’s budget is the opposite of what New Mexico families want or need right now. With costs rising, we should be lowering families’ bills and investing here at home — not pulling the rug out from under folks. And that’s exactly what we plan to do: as New Mexico’s senators, we will do everything we can in the Senate to pass a bipartisan budget that actually puts working families first.”
President Trump’s FY27 Budget Request Proposes:
Ripping Funding Away from Feeding Children and New Mexico Families
Making Communities Less Safe
Increasing Energy Costs and Weakening America’s Energy Infrastructure
Slashing Funding for New Mexico Veterans
Risking New Mexicans’ Health
Gutting Programs that Keep New Mexico Families Housed
Ripping Funding Away from New Mexico Students
Slashing Public Lands Funding and Threatening New Mexicans’ Drinking Water
Taking Funding Away from New Mexico Farmers and Rural Communities
Hurting New Mexico Small Businesses and Entrepreneurs
Cutting Funding for Rural Airports and the Southwest Border Regional Commission
Eliminating Job Training and Worker Protections
Cutting Disaster Recovery Funding and Eliminating Program that Combats Foreign Interference in American Elections
Gutting Funding for Space Exploration
Increasing Starvation Around the World and Risking Americans’ Health
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