Gabe Vasquez

Meet Gabe Vasquez

Representing New Mexico's 2nd District

Gabe Vasquez grew up in New Mexico’s borderlands, where he learned the value of hard work from his mother.

He worked his way through college, helped build a local small business, and served on the Las Cruces City Council before being elected to Congress.

In Congress, Gabe has put partisanship aside to do what’s right, working to keep rural hospitals funded and cap the price of insulin at $35, fund 22,000 customs and border protection agents to make our communities safer, and get his bipartisan bill to combat wildfires signed by President Trump. Gabe has never been afraid to stand up to leaders of either party. He was one of just four Democrats to vote for a bill investing in New Mexico’s military bases and servicemen and women, and he led the successful fight to prevent Trump from selling off our public lands. Gabe always puts New Mexico first.

For more than a decade, Gabe, an NMSU graduate, has dedicated himself to public service. In 2013, after helping build a Las Cruces small business, he joined Senator Heinrich’s staff and worked across southern New Mexico to solve problems for New Mexico businesses, communities, and families. He was also instrumental in the designation of the Organ Mountains Desert Peaks National Monument, protecting it from harmful development and safeguarding it for future generations. In 2017, he was elected to the Las Cruces City Council with over 70 percent of the vote. In this role, Gabe was able to expand and improve park access, updated the district’s infrastructure, promoted policy that created thousands of jobs, and helped craft a comprehensive development plan that focused on lifting families out of poverty. In prior years, Gabe has served as the executive director of the Las Cruces Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, worked in public lands conservation, served on a border security taskforce, several community nonprofit boards, and as a policy advocate promoting child welfare and family wellbeing at the federal level.

Throughout his life, Gabe has also seen the American Dream his family fought so hard for slip away from far too many New Mexicans. An ever rising cost-of-living, a tax code that only benefits CEOs and millionaires, healthcare benefits being taken away from struggling families, a lack of investment in rural and Native American communities, farmers and ranchers pushed out of the market and closing their family business, and politicians who continue put themselves ahead of the communities they are supposed to represent, are hurting those who live paycheck to paycheck.

Gabe is running for Congress to champion New Mexican values and get real results out of Washington.

As Congressman, Gabe founded the bipartisan Public Land Caucus and led the successful fight to stop the MAGA extremists in Congress from selling off million of acres of public lands across the country; he got his bipartisan bill to reduce wildfire risk signed into law by this administration; he’s cracked down on out-of-state landlords buying up homes and jacking up rents; he fought back against the disastrous Medicaid cuts; he delivered over $3 million to public safety agencies across the district; and he’s stood up to leaders of both parties to deliver for New Mexicans. With another term, Gabe can keep fighting for these values and champion policies that actually help working families get ahead.