Melanie Stansbury: “I want to just take a moment here at the beginning to note that we attempted to invite several witnesses on our side of…”

They initiated tribal outreach during the government shutdown when the Bureau of Indian Affairs was not even staffed and operable,

I think it’s fair to say that there’s probably not a single New Mexican whose life has not been touched in some way by the fentanyl and opioid and addiction crisis in New Mexico.

I don't even know if I can dignify a response to the things that I have heard here this morning. Perhaps we will do another showerhead resolution or utilities or something like that. But it is very clear that there is a war in the Middle…

Which indicates to us that there was no good-faith effort to actually engage tribal leadership.