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A federal judge on Friday ruled it’s illegal for the Trump administration to stop federal food assistance and gave it until Monday to come up with a plan. That means millions are without those benefits over the weekend. But local restaurants around the state are stepping up to provide free meals for children and families.

Starting Nov. 1, New Mexico will offer free child care to every family in the state. There will be no fees to pay and no income limits to sign up. But the state might not have enough child care centers to actually take care of all the children whose families want help.

The special legislative session ended Thursday evening in Santa Fe, where all of the bills that addressed the recent federal budget cuts passed while others stalled in committee.

Before the commencement of the New Mexico special legislature session on Wednesday, Democratic state lawmakers outlined their priorities to address the impacts from federal budget cuts.

Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham traveled to Ruidoso on Thursday where she gave an update on the recovery efforts of the aftermath of Tuesday’s devastating 20-foot flash flood that left three people dead.

On Thursday, the City of Albuquerque held their third listening session on the governor’s executive order to deploy National Guard troops to boost capacity of the Albuquerque Police Department.

On Saturday, the Party for Socialism and Liberation denounced Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham's executive order to deploy National Guard troops to Albuquerque to assist police with ongoing public safety challenges.

Colorado’s governor is set to sign a first-of-its-kind reform bill mandating property insurers account for wildfire risk mitigation in both their coverage decisions and pricing models. Some in New Mexico are looking at the legislation as an example that could work here as well.

Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham on Friday, just hours before the deadline, vetoed House Bill 36, which would have allowed optometrists, who do not attend medical school, to perform delicate eye surgeries with only 36 hours of training and 4 hours working on a model eye unsupervised by an actual eye surgeon.

During the past legislative session, there were a number of efforts to change how the political body works. Those included bills to pay members of the only unpaid legislature in the country and altering the length of the annual sessions. But only one passed – House Joint Resolution 2, which would require New Mexico governors to give reasons behind a pocket veto.