Gabe Vasquez
Democrat · NM-2 · U.S. House
Bio
Gabriel Vasquez is an American politician serving as the U.S. representative for New Mexico's 2nd congressional district since 2023. A member of the Democratic Party, he previously served on the Las Cruces City Council from 2017 to 2021. Vasquez's district covers southern New Mexico, including Las Cruces, Carlsbad, and the southern fourth of Albuquerque.
Full bio on Wikipedia →Record of service
- In office
- 3.6 years
- First took office
- 2023 (2 terms)
- Seniority
- 331 of 437 by time served
- Age
- 42
- Albuquerque, NM · 505-208-4777
- Las Cruces, NM · 575-323-6390
Service history, offices and identifiers from unitedstates/congress-legislators (public domain). Years served sum each term rather than subtracting the first start date, so a break in service is not counted as time in office.
Reported net worth
- Assets
- $4k – $60k
- Liabilities
- $250k – $500k
- Net worth
- −$496k – −$190k
- Since 2022
- +$16k
Largest holdings in the 2025 filing · 4 assets reported
Largest first, capped at 40 line items. Each is the asset's reported value bracket, not the income it produced.
From annual financial disclosures, which report every asset and debt as a bracket — so these are ranges, and the figure shown is their midpoint. A primary residence is not a reportable asset while its mortgage is a reportable debt, which pushes some members negative. How this is calculated →
Overall lean (DW-NOMINATE)
Issue profile
Each issue runs left ↔ right, scored from how the member voted on bills tagged to that issue (−1…+1). Issues with too few votes are blank. Overall lean uses DW-NOMINATE.
How they score against the parties
Gabe Vasquez's voting record compared with each party's national platform, issue by issue — the same similarity score used across the site.
On the political map
Gabe Vasquez (the large ringed dot) among every current member of Congress and the party platforms.
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Caucuses & committees
Where Vasquezsits in Congress's own organization — each group's lean is computed from its members' voting records. Explore them all on the caucuses and committees pages.
Caucuses
- New Democrat Coalitionstrongly left · 109 members
- Congressional Hispanic Caucusstrongly left · 40 members
- Congressional Equality Caucusstrongly left · 153 members
Committees
- House Committee on Agriculturecenter · 53 members
- House Committee on Armed Servicescenter · 57 members
Most and least aligned members
Treating Vasquez's 14 issue scores as a vector, cosine similarity measures whether two voting records point the same way (+100%) or in opposite directions (−100%) — the colleagues whose records align most and least with theirs.
Recent notable votes
Latest news
- Sheriff says Vasquez had to be shamed into supporting police (Vasquez: Far-left NM-2 Dem representative)
Eddy County Sheriff Matthew Hutchinson is blasting U.S. Rep. Gabe Vasquez after the Democrat congressman’s delayed response to National Police Week, accusing Vasquez of treating law enforcement like an afterthought while officers in southern New Mexico face t…
Freerepublic.com · June 17, 2026 
WelcomeFest’s Moderate Politics Are Stuck in the PastOn Wednesday, the Welcome PAC, a center-left political action committee favored by the proponents of the abundance and popularism movements, held its third annual “WelcomeFest” gathering in Washington, D.C. It was a moderate sort of mess-around, the kind of p…
The New Republic · June 6, 2026
Marine combat veteran bets big on Hispanic outreach in bid to flip Dem-held House seatGOP congressional candidate Cunningham is betting his military background and Hispanic roots can flip a key New Mexico district held by Rep. Gabe Vasquez.
Fox News · June 1, 2026
‘Moderate’ Dem's unearthed ‘deconstruct’ law enforcement comments draw fire from GOP criticsNew Mexico Democrat Gabe Vasquez is accused of hypocrisy after 2020 defund the police posts resurface amid his new pro-law enforcement messaging.
Fox News · May 23, 2026
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