Martin Heinrich
@SenatorHeinrich
U.S. Senator for NM. Husband, dad, hunter. Former engineer and current energy nerd. Respects hard work, NM values, and anyone with a freezer full of wild game.
Among the Big Lies of the world, one of the biggest is that Republicans actually care about debt and deficit. They just raised the U.S. debt limit $5 trillion dollars. nytimes.com/2025/07/09/opi…
Just got done meeting with emergency managers and local leadership in Ruidoso. We’re going to work with the community and we’re going to rebuild. There are plenty of ways to get involved through local organizations, so let's all step up for our neighbors and lend a helping hand.
This is a mess of the administration’s own making. They fire our public lands workers and then force firefighters to clean up the mess during peak wildfire season. Unbelievable.
Republicans’ Big, Beautiful Betrayal will blow a $3.4 trillion hole in our deficit, raise energy costs, and kick 10 million people off their health insurance. Why? All for billionaire tax cuts.
Trump did that. I guess 🥚 🥚 weren’t enough
Reporter: More soaring prices at the grocery store. The cost of beef is hitting record highs across the country. Prices are up 9% since January, and beef is retailing at the grocery store for on average $9.26 a pound. That is a dramatic increase since the beginning of the year
Going to bed hungry and short on medical supplies… this is how the Trump Administration treats our wildland firefighters. reuters.com/business/envir…
CBS sells out…again.
CBS has announced that it will end "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert" next year cnn.it/3IBktdo
BREAKING: My HALT Fentanyl Act is now law. It permanently classifies all fentanyl-related substances as Schedule I drugs — giving law enforcement more tools to save lives and get this deadly drug off our streets. This is huge.
Right now, Republicans are working to jam through a bill that defunds public broadcasting. 11 NM stations could lose funding—cutting off rural communities from receiving life-saving alerts during wildfires, floods, & other extreme weather events. These cuts put lives at risk.
Sitting here on the Senate floor while one of my Republican colleagues solemnly warns us about the “trillions of dollars of debt” and how we must get our “fiscal house in order.” “Enough is enough,” he declares, as if he just discovered math. Which is rich, considering this same…
Trump and Elon picked a fine time to chase thousands of red-carded employees out of Interior and the Forest Service.
Republicans claim to be against “cancel culture,” but they are literally canceling Big Bird this week.
Folks in Mescalero and Ruidoso, please use caution, heed all local alerts, and move to higher ground.
Out in the Cibola National Forest today, enjoying your public lands.
The devastation in Ruidoso is heartbreaking. The New Mexican Congressional Delegation is grateful the President's emergency declaration approval will jumpstart aid. We’ll keep pressing for a Major Disaster Declaration so New Mexicans get the full support they deserve.
Sen. Heinrich: The reconciliation bill alone is estimated to increase annual energy costs more than $16 billion in 2030 and more than $33 billion by 2035. And American families will bear those increased costs.
We’re down over 2,000 firefighters compared to last year and an entire component of our fire suppression system is completely offline. All thanks to Elon and Trump.
The scale of the disaster in Ruidoso demands an immediate and robust response. We’re calling on @POTUS to approve the Governor’s Major Disaster Declaration, and provide full support to respond and recover.
My immense gratitude to Ruidoso leaders and staff, National Weather Service-Albuquerque staff, utility crews, first responders, medical providers, and the rescue teams that have worked so hard leading up to, during, and now in the aftermath of yesterday’s extreme flooding in…