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While Trump destroys everything he touches, New Mexico is building.
Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham signed the nation’s first universal no-cost child care law this week, making New Mexico the only state with both free child care and tuition-free college. Since launching in November, more than 12,600 families and 16,700 children have enrolled. And there’s already up to $700 million allocated through 2031 to sustain it all.
Lujan Grisham said: “Families shouldn’t have to choose between paying rent or paying for child care. As of today, they no longer will.”
The governor also quietly signed a law making it a felony to deploy any troops or armed agents to polling places—a bill that was fast-tracked after Trump called for nationalizing elections and sued New Mexico over its voter rolls. No press conference or PR stunt, just real resistance on the books.