Will invest in services for Indian Country so there are no more stolen sisters and no more stolen joy.

Teresa Leger Fernandez · New Mexico · Democratic

spending impact 3.00 specificity 1.00 extraction confidence 90%

Commitment kind: unknown. Promised action: not established. Promised outcome: not established. Deadline: unknown; not assumed expired.

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Evidence

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Leger Fernández voted for H.R. 6938 and said the bill included provisions she championed. The release lists Native American community funding including $4 billion for BIA, BIE, and trust administration; $570 million for BIA Public Safety and Justice programs; $8 billion for Indian Health Service; and $720 million for Violence Against Women Act programs.

Unverified model/legacy excerpt; not proof. AI summary (separate from source): Concrete appropriations action in the current House term supports a partial delivery of the promise to invest in Indian Country services relevant to public safety and violence prevention, though the release itself describes House passage before Senate action/enactment.

partial same_term A for effort

Congresswoman Leger Fernández Secures Major Wins for NM in Funding Bill
secondary · model gpt-5.5 · confidence 86%

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Leger Fernández led H.R. 1010, the BADGES for Native Communities Act, and a House Natural Resources subcommittee held a hearing on it. The bill would improve missing-person coordination, create Tribal NamUs facilitators, require a Tribal law-enforcement-needs report, establish grants for missing and murdered persons and sexual assault cases, and support BIA and Tribal police wellness programs. The release says the Senate passed the BADGES Act in December and she urged House passage into law.

Unverified model/legacy excerpt; not proof. AI summary (separate from source): This is serious, claim-relevant legislative effort on MMIW/MMIP and Indian Country public-safety services, but as of the cited action it had not become law in the House, so it supports unresolved/partial progress rather than full delivery.

unresolved same_term A for effort

Leger Fernández Bipartisan Bill to Strengthen Public Safety in Indian Country Advances in Natural Resources Committee | Congresswoman Teresa Leger Fernández
primary · model gpt-5.5 · confidence 88%

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Assessments

Public state: unverified As of unknown · legacy_unverified · . Original AI recommendation (not independently established): partial. same_term A for effort

Leger Fernandez took claim-relevant action in the same federal House term: she voted for H.R. 6938, which became Public Law 119-74 on January 23, 2026 and funded BIA, BIE, Indian Health Service, BIA Public Safety and Justice, and VAWA programs. She also led H.R. 1010, the BADGES for Native Communities Act, aimed at missing and murdered Indigenous persons coordination and Tribal public-safety capacity, but that bill remained short of enactment. Because some Indian Country service investment was enacted with her vote and claimed advocacy, but the broader promised outcome of ending stolen sisters/stolen joy was not fully achieved, partial credit is appropriate.

provider codex_cli · model gpt-5.5 · confidence 82%