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At 40, Deb Haaland was a single mom raising her daughter on WIC, Medicaid, and food stamps, and she once broke down in tears when she was told she didn’t qualify for emergency SNAP. Now, days before Election Day, she joins the show to explain why that experience shapes how she’d govern New Mexico. With early voting underway in the New Mexico governor race, Haaland lays out her closing argument: governors are the first line of defense against the Medicaid cuts and SNAP cuts coming from H.R. 1, the “One Big Beautiful Bill.” She explains her plan for a day-one data center moratorium, with guardrails on water, clean energy, local hiring, and no NDAs. She also makes the case for protecting New Mexico’s first-in-the-nation universal childcare program. Learn more at debhaaland.com 00:00 Intro00:38 Back to school at 4002:07 Closing argument: the first line of defense03:23 Medicaid and SNAP cuts from the “Big Beautiful Bill”05:43 Gas prices in an oil state08:16 Should New Mexico suspend the gas tax?10:05 WIC, Medicaid, food stamps: her single-mom story16:31 “Two jobs and a GoFundMe”17:39 Trades, apprenticeships, and 58,000 homes21:44 Public lands, Chaco, and lawsuits24:27 The five bills Trump signed26:30 The day-one data center moratorium31:06 The Biden record34:37 Water and the Colorado River37:41 ICE and immigration42:12 Public safety, fentanyl, and recovery46:06 Following Lujan Grisham51:13 Get out the voteSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.