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New Mexico Republican state Senate Minority Leader Bill Sharer of Farmington, N.M., speaks at the opening of a special legislative session in Santa Fe, N.M., Wednesday, Oct. 1, 2025. (AP Photo/Morgan Lee)

SANTA FE, N.M. – New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham signed a package of bills Friday aimed at shoring up food assistance, rural health care and public broadcasting in response to recently enacted federal cuts.

The new legislation responds to President Donald Trump's big bill as well as fear that health insurance rates will rise with the expiration of COVID-era subsidies to the Affordable Care Act exchange in New Mexico. Exchange subsidies are a major point of contention in the Washington budget standoff and related fe

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