2025 Session Preview: State Budget Decisions

1.17.2025 – Politics Correspondent Gwyneth Doland interviews three journalists to preview the start of the 2025 legislative session, which begins next week in Santa Fe. In the first of two segments, the group looks ahead to how lawmakers could spend funds from a record $11 billion state budget.  

Correspondent: Gwyneth Doland 

Guests: 
Trip Jennings, Executive Director, New Mexico In Depth 
Dan Boyd, Capitol Bureau Chief, Albuquerque Journal 
Julia Goldberg, Editor-in-Chief, Source New Mexico 

For More Information: 

Higher starting teacher pay, road repairs among highlights of $10.8 billion legislative budget plan – Albuquerque Journal 

New Mexico lawmakers’ $10.8 billion spending plan ‘not that far apart’ from governor’s – Santa Fe New Mexican