U.S. House race in New Mexico’s 2nd district

RRepublicanGreg Cunningham

Says public safety is his top priority; would prioritize an updated version of the 1990s national crime bill that addresses sanctuary cities, sentencing guidelines, the border and cartels.

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DDemocraticGabe Vasquez

Says he introduced bipartisan bills to crack down on cartels and impose harsher penalties on human smugglers and fentanyl traffickers, and is working to keep cartels from recruiting children and to get illegal guns off the streets.

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RRepublicanGreg Cunningham

Says people who enter the country illegally and commit crimes must be identified and that the law must be followed when they are arrested, and calls shutting down the border the first step; opposes the New Mexico Legislature's efforts to bar public entities from contracting with ICE for immigrant detention.

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DDemocraticGabe Vasquez

Supports border security and deporting violent criminals, and says he secured over $280 million for border security; would reform ICE to focus on violent criminals, protect Dreamers and provide a permanent path to legal status for working families.

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RRepublicanGreg Cunningham

Supports the Trump administration's policies of no tax on tips, no tax on overtime and the Social Security deduction, which he says benefit working New Mexicans.

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DDemocraticGabe Vasquez

Supports repealing the Trump tax cuts, which he says paid for tax cuts for the rich by cutting health care and food assistance, and supports cutting taxes on working families.

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RRepublicanGreg Cunningham

Would push the Forest Service to assign vacant grazing allotments, return Mexican and gray wolf management to the people who live with the consequences, and stop transmission corridors from being used to take ranch and farm land through eminent domain.

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DDemocraticGabe Vasquez

Says he founded the Bipartisan Public Lands Caucus, led the bipartisan effort that stopped a Trump plan to sell off New Mexico's public lands, and got a bipartisan wildfire bill signed into law.

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RRepublicanGreg Cunningham

Would press Mexico to meet its treaty water obligations, defend New Mexico's share under the Rio Grande Compact, invest in water storage and desalination research, and reject any plan to divert agricultural water to data centers; supports modernizing agricultural guest worker programs.

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DDemocraticGabe Vasquez

No published position found.

RRepublicanGreg Cunningham

Supports defending New Mexico's oil and gas industry and the jobs it supports, and says that energy keeps fuel, fertilizer and other farm costs down.

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DDemocraticGabe Vasquez

No published position found.

RRepublicanGreg Cunningham

Would open new export markets with allies for New Mexico growers and make sure they are not undercut by foreign products on what he calls an uneven playing field.

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DDemocraticGabe Vasquez

No published position found.

RRepublicanGreg Cunningham

No published position found.

DDemocraticGabe Vasquez

Supports raising wages, workers' right to organize and join a union, and the Protecting the Right to Organize (PRO) Act.

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RRepublicanGreg Cunningham

No published position found.

DDemocraticGabe Vasquez

Supports reversing the health care cuts in the Republican tax law, a public option and Medicare drug price negotiation; has backed capping insulin prices and introduced the Patient Debt Relief Act on medical debt.

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RRepublicanGreg Cunningham

No published position found.

DDemocraticGabe Vasquez

Says he does not trade stocks and is leading a bipartisan effort to ban stock trading by members of Congress.

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RRepublicanGreg Cunningham

No published position found.

DDemocraticGabe Vasquez

Opposes any attempt by Republicans in Congress to ban access to abortion or birth control.

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