Who Does Susan Collins Believe She Answers To?

Who does Susan Collins believe she answers to?

Sens. Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski have long portrayed themselves as reasonable, moderate women of conscience who would do what they saw as the right thing regardless of partisanship. This has been belied by the passage of President Trump’s “big, ugly bill.” Collins allowed the bill to advance to a vote when she had the […]

Maine Center for Economic Policy: How Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” Further Enriches the Rich and Immiserates the Poor

Though some of the details of the OBBBA were altered in the Senate from its original House-passed version, the overall impact remained largely the same: tax cuts for the rich, little change for the middle class, and punishing cuts for the poor.

Trump’s big, ugly bill wounds Maine and here’s what we can do

We had a productive legislative session in Augusta this year. We passed a balanced budget that supports health care, invest in our schools and enhances our ability to respond to extreme weather events while improving infrastructure and ecosystem resilience. Unfortunately, our actions don’t exist in a vacuum. President Trump and his Republican enablers in Congress […]

Huge Ugly Ass Monstrosity of a Bill

by Ernie McCray A “big beautiful bill” it’s been called. But that’s sure not what I’d call a piece of legislation wherein people with more wealth than some nations are given tax breaks while low-income families, in need of any kind of break, are facing changes in Affordable Care Act subsidies