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New Mexico Lawmaker’s Daughter Calls Him “Total Loser” over “Propaganda Trip” to Israel

HeadlineSep 25, 2025

The daughter of a New Mexico state legislator is accusing her father of putting the priorities of the Israeli government over his constituents. New Mexico state Senator Jay Block was part of a bipartisan delegation of 250 lawmakers who visited Israel earlier this month for the “50 States, One Israel” conference, in which they were lobbied by the Israeli government for more funding. After the trip, Block declared Israel is not committing a genocide in Gaza, and said the Israeli military is doing “everything possible to avoid killing Gazan civilians.” On Tuesday, 28-year-old Maddie Block called out her father in a TikTok video.

Maddie Block: “My dad, a Republican state senator in New Mexico, just got back from his trip to Israel, which was not like a personal vacation, by the way. It was him and a bunch of his other Republican cronies who got invited to Israel for what I can only assume was just like a propaganda trip.”

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