how would project 2025 impact new mexico?

Project 2025 poses significant threats to the fundamental rights and freedoms of New Mexicans. It aims to reshape our nation by stripping individual rights, giving handouts to billionaires, and undermining our economy and democracy.

Here's a snapshot of the impact on New Mexico families…

EDUCATION AND CHILD CARE

ELIMINATE THE HEAD START PRESCHOOL EDUCATION PROGRAMProject 2025 eliminates Head Start, which provides access to no-cost child care— among other services—for 7,390 low-income children in New Mexico. Eliminating Head Start would wipe out a critical supply of child care in rural, tribal, and underserved communities that already face a lack of child care slots. This includes 14 of 33 counties (home to ~21% of NM’s total population) which can be classified as child care deserts. 

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Project 2025 Would Eliminate Head Start, Severely Restricting Access to Child Care in Rural America
Fact Sheets: The Harmful Effects of Project 2025, by State - Center for American Progress 
Early Childhood Care and Education in New Mexico: Using New Tools and Rising to the Challenge
CUT THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION AND TEACHERS IN LOW INCOME SCHOOLSProject 2025 eliminates the U.S. Department of Education, including Title I, which provides funds to ensure schools serving low-income students have additional resources to deliver a high-quality education beyond that which can be supported by local property tax revenue. Ending Title I would lead to the loss of 1,705 teaching positions, which serve 24,893 students, in New Mexico.

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Fact Sheets: The Harmful Effects of Project 2025, by State - Center for American Progress

jobs, labor and the economy

ALLOW EMPLOYER TO STOP PAYING OVERTIME AND ROLL BACK OVERTIME PROTECTIONSProposals on the table would enable corporations to create extra-long shifts while also under-scheduling, making it easy for management to mandate 10, 12, or 14 hour days at a moment’s notice without having to provide a predictable schedule. These changes would hit New Mexico especially hard, including 360,000+ workers in areas like healthcare support, food preparation/restaurants, and building maintenance, where many employees are already earning well below a living wage.  

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Project 2025 would roll back protections for overtime pay
NM Workforce Connection Employment Data 
NM Department of Workforce Solutions - Minimum Wage Information 
Living Wage Calculation for New Mexico
INCREASE TAXES FOR MIDDLE CLASS AND WORKING FAMILIESProject 2025 shifts the tax burden from the wealthy onto the middle class. Under the plan, 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.

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Project 2025 would overhaul the U.S. tax system. Here's how it could impact you - CBS News
Fact Sheets: The Harmful Effects of Project 2025, by State - Center for American Progress
END AFFORDABLE STUDENT LOAN REPAYMENT PLANS, COSTING BORROWERS UP TO $4K MORE ANNUALLYProject 2025 replaces income-driven repayment (IDR) plans with a one-size-fits-all program that would increase payments for all borrowers enrolled in existing IDR plans, including the Biden-Harris administration’s Saving on a Valuable Education (SAVE) Plan. Under Project 2025, 40,300 borrowers in New Mexico enrolled in SAVE would pay $2,700 to $4,100 more each year. Project 2025 would also eliminate time-based and occupation-based student loan forgiveness programs, like those used by public service workers, including law enforcement officers and teachers.

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Project 2025 Would Increase Costs, Block Debt Cancellation for Student Loan Borrowers - Center for American Progress
Fact Sheets: The Harmful Effects of Project 2025, by State - Center for American Progress

reproductive health

PUSH FEDERAL AGENCIES TO ADVOCATE FOR A NATIONWIDE BAN ON ABORTIONProject 2025 instructs the U.S. Department of Justice to misapply the Comstock Act, a pair of laws from 1873 and 1909, to criminalize the mailing of medication abortion. Doing so would result in an effective abortion ban nationwide, even in states where abortion is legal, impacting over 1 million New Mexicans.   

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Fact Sheets: The Harmful Effects of Project 2025, by State - Center for American Progress
RESTRICT ACCESS TO BIRTH CONTROL, INCLUDING EMERGENCY CONTRACEPTIONProject 2025 eliminates some emergency contraception medications from free preventive care requirements, meaning 221,000 people in New Mexico would lose guaranteed access to free emergency contraception. 

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Fact Sheets: The Harmful Effects of Project 2025, by State - Center for American Progress
ALLOW THE CDC TO INCREASE ABORTION SURVEILLANCE AND TURN THE AGENCY INTO WHAT IS ESSENTIALLY A “SNITCH NETWORK”Project 2025 proposes to collect data on people who have abortions, using “every available tool, including the cutting of funds, to ensure that every state reports exactly how many abortions take place within its borders, at what gestational age of the child, for what reason, the mother’s state of residence, and by what method.”

Source: The 19th Explains: What you need to know about Project 2025

civil rights

DEPORT MILLIONS OF IMMIGRANTS WHO HAVE BEEN LIVING AND WORKING HERE FOR DECADES BY CARRYING OUT LARGE SCALE RAIDS AND FORCING THEM INTO CAMPS NEAR THE BORDERProject 2025 would eliminate family-based immigration, DACA, and visas for victims of crime while also weakening standards for migrant detention, suspending due process, and enacting mass detention in temporary structures, and enable ICE raids on schools, hospitals, and religious institutions. This would impact an estimated 198,522 New Mexicans, including 92,604 women, 95,014 men, and 10,904 children. 

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Project 2025: Immigration - America's Voice 
III.B. Overview of the State - New Mexico - 2023
MAKE DISCRIMINATION AGAINST LGBTQIA2S+ PEOPLE LEGALProject 2025 would eliminate workplace protections for LGBTQ+ employees and ban trans individuals from serving in the military, impacting at least 98,525 New Mexicans who identify as LGBTQ+, though this is likely an undercount.

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The 19th Explains: What you need to know about Project 2025
Behavioral Risk Factors Surveillance System | NMHealth.org
Counting LGBTQ people in New Mexico has proven elusive: Here's what the state is doing

environment

SEVERELY COMPROMISE EMERGENCY AND DISASTER PLANNING AND RESPONSE BY ELIMINATING KEY AGENCIES LIKE NOAA AND THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE
Accurate and timely environmental data is critical for fire departments, law enforcement agencies, and local governments tasked with anticipating and responding to climate change driven emergencies, including wildfires, floods, extreme heat events, and hazardous levels of air pollution. Without this information, all of New Mexico’s 2.1 million residents could be at risk, leading to increased loss of life, property damage, and economic disruption.

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Project 2025 plan calls for demolition of NOAA and National Weather Service - LA Times 
The MAGA Plan to End Free Weather Reports
National Fire Department Registry Quick Facts
RADICALLY EXPAND COAL MINING, FRACKING, AND FOSSIL FUELS THAT DRIVE POLLUTION IN RURAL COMMUNITIES AND COMMUNITIES OF COLORProject 2025’s deregulation of oil and gas extraction would disproportionately impact rural New Mexicans living close to production wells by releasing massive clouds of methane and toxic chemicals like benzene that correlate with adverse health outcomes, including cancer, respiratory illness, fetal defects, blood disorders, and neurological problems. There are currently 144,000+ New Mexicans living within a half mile of an oil and gas facility, including 20% of our state’s Native/Indigenous residents. 

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Invisible and Toxic in New Mexico 
New Mexico | The Oil & Gas Threat Map
UNDERMINE THE CLEAN WATER ACT AND OTHER KEY ENVIRONMENTAL REGULATIONSMany of the proposals in Project 2025 threaten to disrupt the delicate balance of Western aquatic ecosystems, impacting not only wildlife but also the fishing industry and the recreational activities that are vital to our state’s local economies. 

Hunting and fishing support nearly 8,000 jobs and more than $51 million in state and local taxes, and New Mexico’s outdoor recreation economy directly supports $1.2 billion income and 33,500 jobs.  

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Outdoor Rereation and New Mexico's Economy

healthcare and benefits

CUT SOCIAL SECURITY FOR THE MAJORITY OF NM RESIDENTSProject 2025 cuts Social Security by raising the retirement age for roughly 72 percent of New Mexico residents—1,518,847 people. Project 2025 authors have endorsed and supported plans similar to the two most recent Republican Study Committee budget proposals, which propose increasing the Social Security retirement age from 67 to 69. Doing so would cut benefits by $4,100 to $8,900 after just one year, depending on when one claims Social Security. A median-wage retiree would lose $46,000 to $100,000 over 10 years. 

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Fact Sheets: The Harmful Effects of Project 2025, by State - Center for American Progress
CUT MEDICAID COVERAGEProject 2025 proposes imposing “limits or lifetime caps on [Medicaid] benefits.” 184,900 Medicaid enrollees in New Mexico would be at risk of losing coverage because they are low income and lack access to alternative, affordable coverage

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Fact Sheets: The Harmful Effects of Project 2025, by State - Center for American Progress
INCREASE PRESCRIPTION DRUG COSTS
Project 2025 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. It also blocks the government from negotiating for lower drug prices.

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Fact Sheets: The Harmful Effects of Project 2025, by State - Center for American Progress

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