Gabe Vasquez

Legislative Record

• Opposed giving priority to electricity generated by expensive fossil fuels 

• Opposed repealing methane emissions fees, costing taxpayers

• Opposed slashing energy efficiency programs that save ratepayers hundreds

• Opposed the One Big Beautiful Bill Act which repealed groundbreaking clean energy policies, hiking energy bills and giving tax breaks to data centers

  
  

District-Level Data

• Rep. Vasquez opposed the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, which is projected to: 

  • increase New Mexicans’ household energy costs by approximately $260 per year 

  • increase New Mexicans’ household electricity costs by 5.5% by 2035 

  • impose $2 billion in cumulative household energy costs in New Mexico through 2034 

  • and reduce state GDP by $370 million while eliminating approximately 3,400 jobs.  

Sources

1. Assessing Impacts Of The House “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” On U.S. Energy Costs, Jobs, Health, Emissions 

2. Congressional ‘grid reliability’ bill is like duct tape on a cracked dam 

3. House passes bill to fast-track dispatchable generation interconnection 

4. House Appropriations Committee Democrats, Fact Sheet, 7/13/2025 

5. Congressional Record, 2/26/2025