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How Trump’s Medicaid Cuts Could Close Several Rural Hospitals

8.22.25 Senior Producer Lou DiVizio asks a former state senator and a leading expert on the state’s finances how Trump’s Medicaid cuts will impact New Mexico’s rural health care system. 

Correspondent: Lou DiVizio 

Guests: 
Charles Sallee, Director, Legislative Finance Committee  
Dede Feldman, Democratic Former NM State Senator 

For More Information: 

States scramble to shield hospitals from GOP Medicaid cuts – States Newsroom 

Medicaid Explainer: Does Anyone Really Know How this Important Program Operates? – NM Political Report