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WASHINGTON, D.C. – On January 15, 2026, U.S. Representative Gabe Vasquez (NM-02) unveiled the framework of the Farm and Family Relief Act alongside House Agriculture Committee Ranking Member Angie Craig and other Democratic members of the Committee at a press conference on Capitol Hill. 

WASHINGTON, D.C. – On January 15, 2026, U.S. Representative Gabe Vasquez (NM-02) announced that he had secured federal grants totaling $3.7 million from the Department of Justice for the New Mexico Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force and the Department of Transportation to improve road safety in Albuquerque, Ramah, and Truth or Consequences.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – On January 12, 2026, U.S. Representative Gabe Vasquez’s (NM-02) bill, the Crime Victims Fund Stabilization Act, passed the House of Representatives unanimously.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – On January 6, 2025, U.S. Representative Gabe Vasquez (NM-02) was notified by U.S. Customs and Border Protection that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) had awarded a $1.6 billion dollar contract to Fisher Sand & Gravel Co. to construct a 49-mile border wall in an incredibly remote stretch of New Mexico’s Bootheel in Hidalgo County. 

WASHINGTON, D.C. – On January 9, 2025, U.S. Representative Gabe Vasquez (NM-02) voted in favor of H.R. 5184, the Affordable HOMES Act, to lower manufactured home costs and pass on savings to New Mexican consumers.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – On January 8, 2026, U.S. Representative Gabe Vasquez (NM-02) secured over $4.8 million in federal funding for direct investments in public safety and water infrastructure in New Mexico’s 2nd Congressional District. 

WASHINGTON, D.C. – On January 8, 2026, U.S. Representative Gabe Vasquez (NM-02) voted in support of a three-year extension for ACA enhanced premium tax credits (EPTCs) to protect New Mexicans from soaring health care costs. The bill now heads to the Senate.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – On January 7, 2026, U.S. Representative Gabe Vasquez (NM-02) cosponsored H.R.1294, the BEST Facilitation Act, and H.R.285, the Advanced Border Coordination Act of 2025 — two bipartisan, commonsense solutions to enhance U.S.