SANTA FE, N.M. – New Mexico lawmakers moved quickly Thursday at a special legislative session to prop up funding for food assistance and rural health care services in response to President Donald Trump’s cuts to federal spending on Medicaid and nutrition programs.

The Democratic-led Legislature sent a bill to Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham that provides more than $16 million to sustain food assistance under the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program and bolster food banks, as the federal government ends SNAP eligibility for many noncitizens and changes benefit calculations for others.

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“We need to act to make sure that New Mexicans don't go hungry with SNAP changes at the federal level,” Democratic state Sen. George Muñoz of Gallup said.

Another $50 million would hel

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