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New Mexicans on Losing End of Governor Lujan Grisham Money Grab

Pastor Dewey Moede

FGGAM Just got this news release from the New Mexico GOP House! Just to be clear we do not receive press releases from the Governor. We are off the list, our calls are not returned.

New Mexicans on losing end of MLG money grab

Santa Fe, NM-  The deadline to sign legislation from the regular 60-day Legislative Session was on Friday, April 9, 2021. Governor Lujan Grisham dumped a flurry of vetoes Friday afternoon, including significant state budget slashes that swipe federal COVID relief funds duly allocated by the Legislature. The slashing of allocated federal relief funds is a move by the first-term Governor to attempt to retain sole control over the billions of COVID relief provided by Congress. New Mexico has greatly benefitted from some $9 billion in federal relief in 2020, and will receive another $1.6 billion in additional relief in early 2021. The Legislature allocated these funds from the federal government as part of the state’s annual budget (House Bill 2), ensuring federal dollars would be used properly to maximize COVID relief and prevent an unnecessary special session to allocate these federal funds.

The Governor’s veto pen axed $1.2 billion in federal dollars allocated to various government programs. Significantly, the Governor vetoed $600 million that would be used for the New Mexico Unemployment Insurance Trust Fund, which has been depleted by Lujan Grisham in her year-plus economic shutdown. The unemployment fund’s resources are paid by local businesses, but the State of New Mexico was forced to borrow hundreds of millions of dollars from the federal government to maintain unemployment benefits when the fund went broke in September 2020.

“It is clear the Governor does not have faith in the members of this body or trust in the legislative process,” said House Republican Leader Jim Townsend (Artesia). “For her and her staff, who have not only been paid throughout the Covid crisis but received massive pay raises, to veto over $1 billion dollars in relief to communities struggling through her economy is astounding.  We were elected by our constituents to appropriate those funds because we are best equipped to know what our communities need.  One has to wonder how much further she is going to push her out of control power grab before the Democrats decide to push back.”

With New Mexico’s unemployment rate the fourth highest in the country, preserving the viability of the unemployment trust fund and avoiding a major tax increase on state businesses has been a priority of both Republican and Democrat legislators for months, as there is the looming deadline to repay the federal government back for these borrowed funds.  The state continues to remain under Lujan Grisham’s restrictive economy and several businesses are already being notified that their unemployment insurance taxes are increasing, however the Workforce Solutions Department has notified legislators there is an appeal process.  By providing these federal relief dollars to shore up the unemployment trust fund, the Legislature was taking bipartisan steps to ensure businesses would not see these tax increases.

The vetoes by the Governor were the following:

Pastor posts this month on the drought:

 Pastor Tony Evans says, “Spiritual dryness comes when we overextend ourselves and don’t take time to be alone with the Lord. Sin is another reason we feel dry and distant from God.”

I call what we are in a ‘SPIRITUAL DROUGHT’ in New Mexico and all of America. Our sins have more than caught up with us. Sodom and Gomorrah comes to mind.

Aborting God’s babies, rape, sexual addictions, phonography, so called men of God raping children, murder, drug addiction, now pot, assisted suicide, the list is getting longer. Only fools do not beleive in the wrath of God, ramifications for evil behavior. The New Mexico Legislature just passed a bill so you can get booze delivered to your home! Feeding addiction! How very stupid!

“God’s wrath is his love in action against sin.” The Wrath of God explained

When I look at the U.S. Drought Monitor, my heart sinks. Many of you know that I am a gardener. I see trees and shrubs dying all over the Albuquerque area. I am watering our trees and shrubs twice weekly right now, deep watering. Please water your trees and shrubs we need them, they are a vital part of our environment. The problem in Albuquerque is that so much vegetation is surrounded by rock and pavement. During the summer it cooks them. Zero landscape kind’a went overboard here. This week we had a dust storm, from our house it looked like a blizzard of dust in the Sandias. We already have had two fires in the Bosque NM FIRE INFO. Sadly, with all the problems Albuquerque and the state of New Mexico has, I do not think the drought is getting the attention in needs. At our local city park, the roots of all the trees are coming up out of the ground because of the drought. The ranchers in Catron County and many other places in New Mexico need rain very badly. I make a call every year, many times, for TEAM JESUS to pray for rain!

New Mexico, like all of America, is suffering from a SPIRITUAL DROUGHT!

U.S. Drought Monitor

Details Here

 

Tony Evans explains it this way…….

Overcoming Spiritual Dryness

He said to me, “Son of man, can these bones live?” And I answered, “O Lord God, You know.”
– Ezekiel 37:3

Spiritual dryness comes when we overextend ourselves and don’t take time to be alone with the Lord. Sin is another reason we feel dry and distant from God. The nation of Judah struggled with both of these problems. They were too busy, and they began to worship pagan gods, knowing all along that the Lord had told them, “You shall have no other gods before Me” (Deuteronomy 5:7). Yet they ignored His command and suffered for it.

Overcoming Spiritual Dryness by Tony Evans

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