NM Senate Majority Leader Ready to Tackle Budget

Michael Sanchez

From NMPolitics.net - New Mexico’s next governor and the Legislature, and the people they both represent, will face a monumental fiscal challenge in just a few short months. The recent news from Santa Fe has been grim — a worse-than-predicted state economy is forcing more spending cuts in already underfunded agencies — but the reality is that the news will only get worse. Budget cuts to a few critical, high-profile programs have been lessened by an infusion of federal stimulus money, but that dwindling pot of money will soon be gone and, with it, the temporary relief it provided. Read more here:

NM Senate Majority Leader Ready to Tackle Budget