The 25th Navajo Nation Council’s Budget and Finance Committee recently completed a series of public hearings across all Navajo Agencies, providing community members with the opportunity to have their voices heard in addressing the Navajo Nation’s Fiscal Year 2025 Comprehensive Budget.

Community members addressed infrastructure deterioration, public safety, economic development, and veterans’ services. The BFC, in turn, committed to incorporating the feedback gathered into the FY2025 Comprehensive Budget, with a focus on delivering tangible solutions for the Diné people.

“Our community members are facing real hardships due to the lack of proper infrastructure," Council Delegate...

Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham will attend the Democratic National Convention in Chicago during the week of Aug. 19. She is scheduled to speak during the evening of Aug. 20 on the issue of health care.

The governor is a convention delegate and a former New Mexico Secretary of Health. Democrats are expected to officially nominate Vice President Kamala Harris as the party’s 2024 presidential candidate in Chicago this week.

Also attending the convention are Lujan Grisham’s Chief-of-Staff Dan Schlegel, Deputy Chief Operating Officer Caroline Buerkle and Communications Director Michael Coleman. Travel costs for the governor and staff are paid for by Lujan Grisham’s political action...

PALA, Cali. — Members of the 25th Navajo Nation Council participated in the quarterly Tribal Interior Budget Council meeting during the week of July 29 on the homelands of the Pala Band of Mission Indians in Pala, California, which focused on federal budget priorities related to public safety, education, transportation, natural resources, and others.

The TIBC serves as a critical platform for tribal leaders to engage with federal representatives on matters related to budgetary allocations and funding priorities within the Bureau of Indian Affairs, Bureau of Indian Education, and other agencies.

Speaker Crystalyne Curley and Navajo Nation President Buu Nygren led the discussions on...

WASHINGTON D.C. — Law and Order Committee Chair Eugenia Charles-Newton and Council Delegate Nathan Notah engaged in critical advocacy at the White House during the week of July 22.

The officials’ visit to the Nation’s capital was a continuation of an advocacy push for increases to Navajo Nation and tribal Public Safety and Justice budgets.

“We’re only getting 13% of our need. We get a drop in the bucket of funding that comes down,” Charles-Newton said during a meeting with officials from the White House Domestic Policy Council, Intergovernmental Affairs, and the Office of Management and Budget.

Increased and mandatory tribal PS&J budgets would strengthen public safety...