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Amid Trump’s government shutdown, federal agencies have participated in a coordinated effort to blast partisan political messages from official government websites, accounts, and email correspondence WASHINGTON — U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) joined U.S. Senators Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.), Jack Reed (D-R.I.), and 21 Senate Democrats to demand...

For months, Democrats have been blaming Republicans for rising energy prices. A Senate vote in the coming days will help make their case. As lawmakers continue to fight over government funding, Senate Democrats are forcing a vote as soon as this week to terminate President Donald Trump’s “energy emergency” declaration, which gives him broad powers...

A new, 150-megawatt solar voltaic project started operations Monday in southern New Mexico, the latest in a series of solar energy landmarks in New Mexico. The Milagro Solar+Storage project held its ribbon-cutting ceremony Monday. The project is run by EDF power solutions and El Paso Electric. El Paso Electric provides electricity for approximately...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), member of the U.S. Senate Appropriations Committee, appeared on MSNBC with Erielle Reshef today where he reacted to the Republicans’ failure to work with Democrats to lower health care costs for the American people. During the interview, Heinrich also touched on how the cancellation of millions of...

On Tuesday at midnight, President Donald Trump and the Republicans in Congress decided they would rather shut the federal government down than protect hardworking New Mexicans from skyrocketing health care costs. We are only a few days into this shutdown, but I can tell you this: It was entirely preventable. Republicans control the House. They...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), Ranking Member of the U.S. Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee released the following statement in response to the news that the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) is killing 223 energy projects in Democrat-led states [PC1] that were approved and appropriated by Congress: “Donald...

Outdoors enthusiasts who for months have avoided New Mexico’s southern borderland wilderness after swaths of it were designated military zones this spring now have a way to access the region again — but with some strings attached. Fort Huachuca U.S. Army base in southeast Arizona opened a new permit process this week to allow hikers, like those on...

The U.S. Department of Energy on Wednesday announced the cancellation of $7.5 billion in awards for 223 projects across the country. In a news release, the department said the canceled projects “did not adequately advance the nation’s energy needs, were not economically viable, and would not provide a positive return on investment of taxpayer...

The Department of Energy is terminating 10 energy project grants in New Mexico, cutting off about $135 million in federal funding and raising concerns the decision could have severe consequences for the state’s economy. The agency announced it terminated 321 awards for 223 projects in 16 states, a funding total of $7.56 billion, because they did...

New Mexico’s five-member Congressional delegation on Wednesday during a virtual news conference described the federal government shutdown as “entirely preventable,” an “elaborate smokescreen” and proof of Congressional Republicans’ “failure to govern.” All five members — all Democrats — said they remained in Washington, D.C., prepared to find a...

A bill that would award the Congressional Gold Medal to some New Mexico World War II veterans has failed to make it through Congress in recent years, but some descendants of those veterans are continuing efforts to secure that honor. The Congressional Gold Medal is awarded as the “highest expression of national appreciation” for distinguished...

WASHINGTON — U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), a member of the U.S. Senate Appropriations Committee, U.S. Senator Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.), a member of the U.S. Senate Budget Committee, and U.S. Representatives Teresa Leger Fernández (D-N.M.), Melanie Stansbury (D-N.M.), and Gabe Vasquez (D-N.M.) held a press conference to demand that...

WASHINGTON — U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), a member of the U.S. Senate Appropriations Committee, released the following statement after Republicans failed to work with Democrats to pass a bipartisan government funding bill that lowers health care costs and delivers for New Mexicans. Last Friday in Las Cruces, Heinrich underscored the...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), Ranking Member of the U.S. Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, is calling on U.S. Department of the Interior Secretary Doug Burgum to classify the Department’s staff as essential during the Republican government shutdown to maintain the health and safety of Americans who...

WASHINGTON — U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) hosted three events in Las Cruces to highlight how Donald Trump and Congressional Republicans’ health care and inflation crisis is harming New Mexico families by putting health care out of reach and skyrocketing the cost of living. Heinrich’s events underscored the threat of a looming Republican...

LAS CRUCES — A panel of community advocates and a physician sounded an alarm Friday over how New Mexico's health care system will be affected once changes enacted under the federal reconciliation law, known as H.R. 1 or the "One Big Beautiful Bill" signed by President Donald Trump in July, take effect in January. At the end of this year, federal...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), Ranking Member of the U.S. Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, released the following statement on National Public Lands Day: “Our public lands hold our shared identity – they are where we gather, hunt, hike, fish, and mountain bike. These lands hold our collective history and...

Sen. Martin Heinrich joined local nonprofit leaders and SNAP recipients to discuss the effects federal cuts to the SNAP program could have on New Mexico. Heinrich, who has been a vocal opponent to The One Big Beautiful Bill which was passed into law in July, called the cuts that were included on the bill harmful and said many New Mexicans are at...

PICTURES   LAS CRUCES, N.M. — U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), Ranking Member of the U.S. Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, joined Conservation Lands Foundation and Friends of the Organ Mountains-Desert Peaks to deliver a keynote address commemorating the 25th anniversary of the National Conservation Lands. Heinrich was joined by...

As a possible federal government shutdown looms, so does the chance that thousands of New Mexicans will see significant increases to their health insurance premiums. Federal health insurance tax credits have become a sticking point in negotiations over a spending bill Congress needs to pass to avoid a government shut-down at the end of the...