Maine Lawmakers Approve $300 "Affordability Checks" in Final Budget Deal

Maine Lawmakers Approve $300 "Affordability Checks" in Final Budget Deal

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Budget squeezes through after battle over Gov. Mills’ affordability checks

The Maine Senate in session in the State House in Augusta on Feb. 25, 2025. (Photo: Jim Neuger/ Maine Morning Star)The final budget of Gov. Janet Mills’ tenure narrowly passed after some members of the Democratic majority objected to the governor’s plan to send relief checks to certain Mainers, joining Republicans in critiquing the move as bad policy.  One-shot funding in the form of $300 “affordability payments” to a subset of Mainers is a core…

Legislature votes forward supplemental budget, Gov. Mills says she will make it law

The $500+ million spending package creates affordability checks and a millionaire’s tax. The budget got no GOP support, and two Democrats voted against it.

Maine lawmakers advance budget bill that includes $300 rebate checks, 'millionaires tax'

Democrats in the Maine House and Senate advanced a spending bill early Thursday that imposes a new tax on millionaires and sends $300 rebate checks to hundreds of thousands of Mainers.