Press Releases

PHOTO: USDA’s Now-Deleted Guidance Confirming Its Authority to use Available Funds During a Shutdown Luján Led Entire Senate Democratic Caucus in Effort to Stop Trump Administration from Illegally Withholding Funding For SNAP VIDEO: Luján on the Senate Floor Highlighting Urgent Need...

President Trump: “We can do things during the shutdown that are irreversible and bad for them like cutting vast numbers of people out. Cutting things they like, cutting programs they like.” The Trump administration is required by law to use...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M) and Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) led a letter to U.S. Trade Representative Ambassador Jamieson Greer calling out the Trump Administration’s harmful plan to increase beef imports from Argentina, which will help foreign interests at the...

Trump: “I hate to tell you, but we are cutting Democrat programs” Washington, D.C. – U.S. Senator Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.), Ranking Member of the Senate Agriculture Committee’s Subcommittee on Food and Nutrition, Specialty Crops, Organics, and Research, issued the following statement regarding the...

Senate Republicans blocked Democrats’ legislation to pay all federal workers during Trump’s shutdown WASHINGTON — U.S. Senators Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) and Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.) released the following statements after Senate Republicans blocked Democrats’ legislation to ensure all federal employees —...

Washington, D.C. — U.S. Senators Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.), Ranking Member of the Senate Agriculture Committee’s Subcommittee on Food and Nutrition, Specialty Crops, Organics, and Research, Cory Booker (D-N.J.), and Amy Klobuchar, Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and...