Santa Fe, NM - Today, Senate Republicans were unified in their disapproval of House Bill 2, the $11.1 billion FY27 appropriation for the State of New Mexico. Combined with the huge tax increases recently passed in Senate Bill 151, Democrats are again increasing government spending while further imposing taxes on struggling New Mexican families and businesses. With yet another increase from last year, this new budget is nearly 80% higher than it was before Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham took office in 2019.
In response to the passage of HB 2, Senate Republican Leader Bill Sharer (R-Farmington) has issued the following statement:
"Democrats talk about affordability for the cameras yet they turn around and increase your taxes while recklessly spending more and more taxpayer dollars on programs that continuously fail in their intentions." The Senator continued, "With a budget that has increased by 80% in just 8 years under this Governor, New Mexicans should ask themselves if their community is 80% safer, if their children are 80% more proficient in literacy and mathematics, or if their roads are 80% better. We all know the answers to these questions; Democrat leadership is driving our state straight into the ground while asking New Mexicans to foot the bill."
