Deb Haaland

Her campaign website says she would raise the state minimum wage to a living wage and adjust it with inflation over time rather than as a one-time increase.^4,5

1. Raise it and increase it automatically each year with inflation
2. Raise it in set steps, without automatic yearly increases
3. Keep the current minimum wage rules
4. End automatic yearly increases, or bar cities and counties from setting higher minimums

Her campaign website says she would use state resources, including budget surpluses and the state's Medicaid Trust Fund, to fill gaps left by federal cuts to Medicaid and other programs.^4,5,6

Her campaign website says she would increase New Mexico's state child tax credit and expand who qualifies for it.^4,5

Her affordability plan says she would establish paid family and medical leave in New Mexico.⁵

Her education plan says she would protect New Mexico's free universal child care program and grow the state's Early Childhood Trust Fund, and says she introduced legislation in Congress for universal free child care.⁷

1. Make child care free, or cap what families pay at a set share of income (such as 7%), paid for with new public funding
2. Expand help for lower- and middle-income families through grants and tax credits
3. Keep current child care funding and tax credits
4. Lower costs mainly by easing rules on providers, not with new federal spending

Her healthcare plan says she would defend SNAP and other food assistance from federal cuts and use state money to supplement federal programs.⁶

Her campaign website says she would expand the state's Opportunity Scholarship to provide free tuition for New Mexicans, including for graduate school and vocational certificates.^4,7

Her education plan calls for more special education teachers and school support staff, minimum pay for education workers that rises with inflation, and more funding for before- and after-school programs.⁷

Her campaign website says she would build more housing by reducing barriers and speeding up permits, including a statewide deadline after which a housing project that has not been acted on would be approved automatically.^4,5

Her affordability plan says she would restrict how much housing private equity firms and large investment corporations can own in New Mexico.⁵

Her campaign website says she would expand down payment assistance for first-time homebuyers and for workers in fields such as education, health care and public safety.⁴

Her public safety plan says she would address homelessness with a Housing First approach that provides permanent housing without barriers to entry.⁸

1. Provide permanent housing first, without requiring treatment or sobriety beforehand
2. Provide housing that comes with requirements, such as treatment, sobriety or work
3. Enforce bans on public camping and move people into shelters or treatment, including court-ordered treatment for some

Her affordability plan says she would require companies with high energy demand, such as data centers, to build their own energy infrastructure so that higher energy costs are not passed on to consumers.⁵

1. Encourage new data centers with tax breaks and faster approvals
2. Require data centers to pay the full cost of the power plants and lines they need
3. Pause or limit new data centers

Her campaign website calls for more state investment in renewable energy, and her affordability plan supports meeting the goal of reducing emissions to zero by 2050.^4,5

Her healthcare plan says she would work toward public coverage for all New Mexicans through a state public option available to anyone who wants it.⁶

1. One government plan for everyone (Medicare for All)
2. Add a government plan that anyone can choose to buy
3. Keep the current mix of private and public coverage, including the ACA
4. Fewer federal insurance rules and more private plan choices, with aid paid to individuals

Her healthcare plan says she would create a program setting upper payment limits for high-cost drugs in private insurance, based on the best prices available in other countries.⁶

Her healthcare plan says she would defend and expand access to abortion in New Mexico.⁶

Her healthcare plan says she would keep abortion covered by insurance, including Medicaid, and use state funds to replace lost federal support for providers such as Planned Parenthood.⁶

1. Bar public funds for abortions and for groups that provide them, including for their other services
2. Bar public funds for most abortions, but let clinics that provide them be paid for other care
3. Let Medicaid and other public programs cover abortion (ending the Hyde Amendment)

Her healthcare plan says she would require insurance plans to cover fertility care and fertility-preservation services.⁶

Her healthcare plan says she would use the state's Health Care Affordability Fund to help lawfully present immigrant families who are losing health coverage because of federal eligibility changes.⁶

Her public safety plan says she would ban ICE agents from wearing masks on the job and require ICE personnel to identify their agency when they approach people.⁸

Her campaign plans say she would support ending local cooperation agreements with ICE that go beyond keeping New Mexicans safe, and would bar state-funded health facilities from sharing patients' immigration information with federal enforcement agencies.^2,6,8

Her public safety plan says she would sign a law barring other states' National Guard troops from being sent into New Mexico without the governor's permission.⁸

1. Let the president send troops into cities, even over a governor's objection
2. Send troops only when a state's governor asks for them or agrees
3. Don't use troops for local policing, and limit the president's power to send them

Her public safety plan says she would hire and train more law enforcement officers, raise pay for rural departments, and create a state Office of Community Safety that sends social workers and behavioral health professionals to mental health calls.^4,8

1. Increase police funding, for example to hire more officers
2. Keep funding near current levels
3. Shift some police funding to mental health, housing or other services

Her public safety plan says she would require that firearms be removed as ordered under the state's Extreme Risk Protection Orders.⁸

Her public safety plan says she would work with experts on a framework to help young people deal with social media's harms, and her plans support keeping smartphones out of classrooms.^7,8

Her affordability plan says she would have road projects install fiber-optic lines while the ground is open and expand internet access in rural communities.⁵

Her healthcare plan says she would push to restore the definition of protected waterways to include intermittent streams.⁶

1. Cover fewer waters, such as streams and wetlands that have water for only part of the wet season
2. Keep coverage where the 2023 ruling left it
3. Pass a law to cover more wetlands and streams again, including some that flow only after rain or snowmelt

Her healthcare plan says she would enforce New Mexico's methane and air toxics rules for oil and gas operations, set health-based buffer zones between new oil, gas or mining operations and places such as schools and homes, and push back against federal rollbacks.⁶

Her affordability plan says she would preserve New Mexico's public lands and use state resources to help keep federal lands in the state safe and open as federal staffing is cut.⁵

Her affordability plan says she would extend the Rail Runner train to more cities, lengthen its operating hours and make train service free for students.⁵