Debra Anne Haaland is an American politician who has been the U.S. Representative from New Mexico’s 1st congressional district since 2019. She is a member of the Laguna Pueblo people and a 35th-generation New Mexican. She was the chair of Democratic Party of New Mexico Native American Caucus from 2012 to 2013. She ran for Lieutenant Governor in 2014 but lost to the Republican ticket of Governor Susana Martinez and Lieutenant Governor John Sanchez.
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Debra Anne Haaland is an American politician who has been the U.S. Representative from New Mexico’s 1st congressional district since 2019. She is a member of the Laguna Pueblo people and a 35th-generation New Mexican. She was the chair of Democratic Party of New Mexico Native American Caucus from 2012 to 2013. She ran for Lieutenant Governor in 2014 but lost to the Republican ticket of Governor Susana Martinez and Lieutenant Governor John Sanchez. In November 2018, she defeated former New Mexico State Representative Janice Arnold-Jones, receiving 59% of the vote and winning three of the five counties of the district’s district. If confirmed, she would become the first Native American to run the Department of the Interior, and the firstNative American Cabinet secretary in U.
S. history. She supports the movements to abolish ICE and to implement the Green New Deal and Medicare For All. On December 17, 2020, President-elect Joe Biden announced that he would nominate HaalAnd to serve as United States Secretary of the interior. She has been credited with rebuilding the state party after large defeats for Democrats in New Mexico in 2014. She raised enough money during her two-year term as chair to pay off seven’ worth of debt incurred under previous previous chairs. After the expiration of her term as state party chair, HaAland announced her intention to run for the 1st House of Representatives in the 2018 elections.
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