Lujan Grisham Administration Prioritizes Buying Electric Vehicles Over Protecting Senior Citizens

November 18, 2020

As New Mexico gets ready to tackle the next state budget, the priorities of the Governor’s administration are clear: More money to buy electric vehicles, less money to protect senior citizens.

The New Mexico state budget depends on revenue from the state’s oil and gas workers to deliver billions. During a worldwide pandemic and amid regulatory attacks from radical environmentalists New Mexico’s leaders are worried about how it will make ends meet next year if the industry doesn’t produce as it did in the past.

That’s the background as state government agencies present their budgets for the next year to a key legislative finance committee this week. It’s clear two of those proposals tell the story of the eco-left’s stranglehold on the Lujan Grisham Administration.

The New Mexico Aging and Long-Term Services Department is making a drastic decision by proposing to cut its adult protective services program which investigates reports of abuse against the elderly. The agency as a whole is looking to cut 5% of its budget.

On the same day, the state’s General Services Department is asking for an additional $1 million in taxpayer money…to buy 28 electric cars for bureaucrats. The state has already spent millions on charging stations and on installing unreliable solar panels on state buildings.

So in the next year when New Mexicans wonder why there are fewer protections for our senior citizens, the Lujan Grisham Administration hopes everyone will take comfort knowing a Santa Fe bureaucrat will have a new electric car to get them to their next meeting.