'The product of various tradeoffs and compromises' | Gov. Mills signs $320 million budget

Here are the nearly 300 bills still awaiting funding by the Maine Legislature

The offices of the Joint Standing Committee on Appropriations and Financial Affairs in the State House in Augusta. (Photo by Jim Neuger/ Maine Morning Star)Lawmakers are returning Tuesday to decide the fate of nearly 300 bills that are still awaiting funding.  In total, these bills would cost about $2.5 billion over the next two years. A bill to increase the cost-of-living adjustments for state employee pensions that is not expected to pass acco…

Janet Mills signs budget addition with higher Maine cigarette tax into law

PoliticsOur political journalists are based in the Maine State House and have deep source networks across the partisan spectrum in communities all over the state. Their coverage aims to cut through major debates and probe how officials make decisions. Read more Politics coverage here. Gov. Janet Mills signed into law Monday an addition to the $11.3 billion state budget headlined by a higher cigarette tax and various compromises following disagre…

Mills signs $320M supplemental budget into law

The budget funds housing, child welfare, and other services.

'The product of various tradeoffs and compromises' | Gov. Mills signs $320 million budget

Gov. Janet Mills signs a $320 million supplemental budget.

Mills signs $320M budget add-on into law amid debate over taxes, program cuts

“I'd like to call this bill what it is,” Sen. Jeff Timberlake, a Republican, said. “It's a blueprint for bloated government.”

'Tradeoffs and compromises': Gov. Mills signs new 2-year budget into Maine law

The two-year state budget adds $320 million in additional spending to the $11.3 billion baseline budget passed in March.