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February 27, 2025

WASHINGTON, D.C. –Rep. Melanie Stansbury (NM-01), Ranking Member of the DOGE Oversight Subcommittee, co-led a letter with U.S.

February 27, 2025

WASHINGTON D.C. — Representative Melanie Stansbury (NM-01), and Senators Martin Heinrich (D-NM) and Ben Ray Luján (D-NM) led a letter to President Donald Trump, Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum, and Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to immediately halt and reverse the harmful impacts of executive actions that have to led to funding freezes and mass firings impacting Tribal programs.  

February 26, 2025

Washington, D.C.U.S. Representatives Melanie Stansbury (NM-01), Teresa Leger Fernández (NM-03), and Gabe Vasquez (NM-02), and U.S. SenatorsBen Ray Luján (D-N.M.) and Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) wrote to Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. demanding immediate action to contain the recent outbreak of measles in New Mexico.

February 26, 2025

WASHINGTON D.C.U.S. Representative Melanie Stansbury (N.M.-01)released the following statement after voting “no” on the GOP’s proposed budget resolution:

“This budget resolution is one of the greatest heists in American History—as the GOP loots vital and life-saving programs to pay for permanent tax breaks for billionaires. 

February 25, 2025

WASHINGTON D.C.Representatives Melanie Stansbury (NM-01), Ranking Member of the Subcommittee Delivering on Government Efficiency, Gerald Connolly (Va-11), Ranking Member of the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and Representative Shontel Brown (OH-11), Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on Cybersecurity, Information Technology, and Government Innovation, sent a

February 21, 2025

ALBUQUERQUERep. Melanie Stansbury (NM-01) continued the fight Friday against President Trump and Elon Musk’s unlawful and harmful systematic dismantling of critical federal government agencies, and programs during a press conference at the Indian Pueblo Cultural Center.      

February 14, 2025

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M.U.S. Representative Melanie Stansbury (NM-01)delivered handmade valentines from local elementary school students to veterans receiving treatment at the Raymond G. Murphy Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center. 

Students from Wherry Elementary School contributed their handmade valentines for delivery.  

February 12, 2025

WASHINGTON D.C. — Today, Representative Melanie Stansbury (NM-01), Representative Teresa Leger Fernandez (NM-03), andRepresentative Sharice Davids (KS-03) sent a letter to U.S. Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum, opposing President Donald Trump’s Executive Order 14191 on “Expanding Educational Freedom and Opportunity for Families.” 

February 10, 2025

Washington, D.C.— Today, Representative Melanie Stansbury (NM-01) reintroduced the Stop the Opioid Pill Presser and Fentanyl Act (STOPP Fentanyl Act), which will disrupt global criminal networks and suppliers of illicit drugs like fentanyl. 

Watch the bill introduction here.