Haaland Sounds Alarm on Trump, GOP Cuts to 90,000 New Mexicans’ Healthcare, Continues Fight for Families’ Health

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – As President Trump and Republicans in Congress move ahead on their tax scam that would give the wealthiest Americans billions of dollars in tax cuts, Deb Haaland, candidate for New Mexico governor, sounded the alarm on plans to jeopardize healthcare for more than 90,00 New Mexicans’ through harmful Medicaid cuts. Haaland addressed voters directly on social media calling attention to the cuts for families who rely on Medicaid and the detrimental impacts to healthcare providers in the state. Healthcare is one of the leading issues on Deb Haaland’s campaign for governor.

In the video, Haaland states, “Healthcare is not a partisan issue – it is right that we all deserve, and we must stand together to protect Medicaid and demand that Republicans in Congress put people over politics. I promise to stand up for our communities’ access to healthcare in every arena. New Mexicans deserve better, and we can’t back down.”

In the state of New Mexico, forty percent of the population relies on Medicaid for their healthcare. If the radical Republican tax bill is passed, New Mexico will lose funding for low income families, children, rural health care providers, hospitals, and much of the health care system in the state. Additionally, the Indian Health Service relies heavily on Medicaid to provide healthcare to Native communities across New Mexico, and these cuts would lead to severe underfunding in an already underfunded agency.

Haaland, who relied on Medicaid for her child’s healthcare as a single mom, has been a champion of ensuring New Mexicans have access to quality healthcare. As Chair of the Democratic Party of New Mexico she pressured Republican Governor Susana Martinez to expand Medicaid for 170,000 New Mexicans under the Affordable Care Act. In the U.S. House of Representatives, Haaland repeatedly voted to block cuts to Medicaid and championed efforts to ensure more families had access to healthcare during the COVID-19 pandemic and that doctors, nurses, and first responders had the support they needed to provide critical care during the crisis.

As Secretary of the Interior, Haaland worked with the Department of Health and Human Services to provide more behavioral health services to Native communities struggling with high youth suicide rates and generational trauma caused by the Federal Indian Boarding School era.