Representative Melanie Stansbury, a member of the U.S. House of Representatives, has recently taken to social media to criticize former President Donald Trump’s policies and comment on recent national controversies.
On January 17, 2026, Stansbury posted: “In just one year in office, Trump has managed to:
-Raise electricity prices by 13%
-Raise gas prices by nearly 60%
-Destroy 165,000 clean energy jobs
-Cancel enough clean energy projects to power 13 million homes
I thought Trump was supposed to lower prices on Day 1?”
Continuing her critique of the former president’s actions and their historical implications, she wrote on January 18, 2026: “Tariffs. Expansionism. Sending armed guards into our communities.
Trump is showing the EXACT same kind of abusive and out of control behavior our Founding Fathers rebelled against 250 years ago.”
Later that day, Stansbury commented on the ongoing public interest in documents related to Jeffrey Epstein: “Whatever’s in these Epstein Files (and we have some idea) must be really bad.”
Stansbury represents New Mexico’s First Congressional District and has a record of electoral success in recent years. In the general election held in 2024, she defeated Steve Jones with a margin of 56.4% to 43.6%. She previously won elections against Michelle Garcia Holmes in 2022 and Mark Moores in a special election in 2021.
