Gabe Vasquez avoids Navajo Nation bill

Gabe Vasquez is avoiding the Navajo Nation once again.

Vasquez’s name is notably missing from a new bill to nullify the Biden administration’s decision to block future oil and gas leasing around Chaco Canyon for the next two decades, which the Navajo Nation say undermines tribal sovereignty. 

Vasquez was quick to applaud the Biden administration’s decision in June, despite the Navajo Nation, local officials and energy producers opposing it since it was announced in 2021.

However, it’s not surprising Vasquez would decline to support the Navajo Nation in this new bill and instead take an anti-American energy stance, despite the 115,000+ jobs in the New Mexico oil and gas industry that single-handedly gives billions to New Mexico’s public schools.
 

• Gabe Vasquez said he wants to “transition” away from American energy jobs. 
   
• Vasquez voted against legislation to produce more clean, reliable and affordable energy in America. 
   
• Vasquez called to end oil and gas “immediately” and to “shut it all down.”

“Gabe Vasquez’s decision to ignore the Navajo Nation in the name of anti-American energy is yet another example of how he is in lockstep with the extreme Left. Ignoring the Navajo Nation to achieve something in this all-out fight against domestic energy is political malpractice.” — NRCC Spokeswoman Delanie Bomar