tariffs

U.S. Sen. Martin Heinrich (D-NM) met with local business owners and community organizations in Albuquerque Thursday to discuss rising costs facing New Mexico families, which he said are being driven by tariffs and the conflict with Iran.

U.S. Senator Ben Ray Lujan hosted a forum Wednesday with Nevada Senator Catherine Cortez Masto spotlighting the local and national effects of President Trump’s tariff policies. The forum featured almost a dozen speakers including business owners and economic experts, who discussed the ways tariffs have contributed to economic instability, increased costs for working families and benefited special interests.

Democratic U.S. Senator Ben Ray Luján hosted a roundtable discussion Tuesday in Albuquerque with business leaders on President Trump’s implementation of tariffs and their impacts, and the prevailing theme was uncertainty.

The Legislative Finance Committee said earlier this week that new federal policies — like tariffs and federal funding cuts — would have an outsized effect on New Mexicans, and could increase the cost of groceries in a state that already has a higher than average amount of food insecurity.

New Mexico U.S. Rep. Gabe Vasquez on Thursday criticized the potential trade war with Mexico as harmful to the economy and unhelpful for border security.