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Senate Minority Leader on Special Session, Political Violence

October 3, 2025
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10.3.2025 – New Mexico Republican lawmakers disagreed with Democrats’ premise for October’s special session, that backstopping funding cuts from President Trump’s big bill was a state emergency. Senate Minority Floor Leader Bill Sharer (R-Farmington) sat down with NMiF Host Nash Jones to talk about what GOP lawmakers do see as urgent needs, and why he…

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Senate Majority Leader on Urgency of Special Session

October 3, 2025
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10.3.2025 – New Mexico Senate Majority Floor Leader, Peter Wirth (D-Santa Fe) speaks with NMiF Host Nash Jones about Democratic lawmakers’ priorities for the special legislative session on Oct. 1 and 2, 2025. Democrats in the state’s legislative and executive branches agreed that backstopping federal funding cuts to Medicaid, SNAP and other programs was an…

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