Project 2025 would hurt New Mexico.
Project 2025 New Mexico
The detailed plans and tactics in it cover every area of American life. Among the proposals:
EXPANDING tax cuts for corporations and the 1%
MASS DEPORTATIONS and incarcerations of immigrant families
ELIMINATING the Head Start program, ending pre-school education for children of low-income families
ENDING marriage equality for LGBTQ+ families
CUTTING free and reduced school lunch program for kids
ALLOWING employers to stop paying hourly workers overtime
BANNING ABORTION ACCESS even in cases of medical emergency and allowing the government to potentially prosecute pregnant people if they miscarry
DRASTICALLY CUTTING Social Security benefits by raising the retirement age
What is Project 2025? And how does it affect New Mexico?
KOAT
The 920-page agenda created by the Heritage Foundation claims it would restore "American prosperity." Recommended actions include dismantling the Department of Homeland Security, the Department of Education, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, and more. If any of the suggestions are implemented, experts say it would have massive implications across the state.
"Federal government agencies play such a big role here in New Mexico," KOAT Political Expert Brian Sanderoff said. "The Department of Defense, the Department of the Interior, the Department of Energy-- these are big agencies with a big impact here in New Mexico."
"Over 6% of our economy comes from R&D because it's driven from labs, which in turn receive much of their funding through government sources," UNM Economist Reilly White said. "So it's unclear how those government cuts might pass their way to New Mexico given our state's reliance on those things."
New site from ProgressNow NM looks at Project 2025 impacts on New Mexico
The Project 2025 NM website includes:
A general overview of Project 2025
Information and data on how its policies will directly impact New Mexico families
All content in English and Spanish
Featured in it are common topics like taxes, overtime protection for workers, student loan repayment plans, cuts to Social Security and Medicaid, and reproductive healthcare options such as birth control/contraception. There are currently 16 key areas covered, with a second round of research expected to be complete in September.
Project 2025 at NM Political Report
How Project 2025 could lead to worse climate impacts while reducing support for communities
Project 2025: How a consolidation of federal power could ban abortion
Project 2025 takes aim at elections: ‘Sowing the seeds of doubt’
Project 2025 and its impact on LGBTQ rights, gender-affirming care
Chaco Canyon buffer zone in the crossfires of Project 2025
Project 2025 Harms New Mexico
Center for American Progress
Taxes - the typical family of four in New Mexico would see a tax increase of $2,160 per year, while 45,000 households in America reporting more than $10 million in income would each see an average annual tax cut of $1.5 million.
Social Security - plans to cut Social Security by raising the retirement age for roughly 72 percent of New Mexico residents - 1,518,847 people, cutting benefits by $4,100 to $8,900 after just one year; a median-wage retiree would lose $46,000 to $100,000 over 10 years.
Health care - proposes “limits or lifetime caps on [Medicaid] benefits.” In New Mexico, 184,900 Medicaid enrollees would be at risk of losing coverage; would raise the cost of prescription drugs for up to 125,870 people in New Mexico by eliminating out-of-pocket Medicare drug cost limits, and blocks the government from negotiating for lower drug prices.
Abortion rights and contraception - eliminates some contraception medications from free preventive care requirements, affecting 221,000 women in New Mexico; directs the Department of Justice to criminalize the mailing of medication abortion nationwide
Child care - eliminates Head Start, which provides access to no-cost child care and other services for 7,390 low-income children in New Mexico, wiping out a critical supply of child care in rural and other underserved communities that already face a lack of child care slots.
Student loans - 40,300 borrowers in New Mexico enrolled in SAVE would pay $2,700 to $4,100 more each year.
Public education - would lead to the loss of 1,705 teaching positions, which serve 24,893 students, in New Mexico.
We can stop Project 2025.
Project 2025 would eliminate a public service that serves more than 800,000 children a year, plus their families. Head Start is an investment that makes hundreds of thousands of people more prosperous, healthier, and happier. Project 2025 would harm hundreds of thousands of Americans.
Learn More:
Project 2025 at NM Political Report
How Project 2025 would change American life