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Angus King
@angusking· Independent · ME· May 27, 2026

Any attempt to effectuate this order would violate the Constitution, break these bonds, and threaten the foundations of American democracy.

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Angus King
@angusking· Independent · ME· May 27, 2026

By issuing the executive order, however, the President is attempting to unconstitutionally consolidate power to personally regulate American elections.

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Angus King
@angusking· Independent · ME· May 27, 2026

The Constitution provides no role for the President in regulating federal elections.

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Angus King
@angusking· Independent · ME· May 27, 2026

I believe and I would like your view, that a more diverse energy source, particularly one that's based on resources that we control rather than a worldwide price, would be beneficial to the country.

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Angus King
@angusking· Independent · ME· May 27, 2026

I hope this is an area you will pursue with your procurement people.

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Angus King
@angusking· Independent · ME· May 27, 2026

Let me ask, the bill that was mentioned, the Get Justice-Involved Veterans BACK HOME, the pilot program for the V.A. to provide mental health services for incarcerated veterans. To me that is a gimme. That's obvious. But we have to start…

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Angus King
@angusking· Independent · ME· May 27, 2026

At best, illegal robocalls are a constant annoyance — at worst, they’re scams that target our most vulnerable citizens or tie up businesses’ phone lines.

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Angus King
@angusking· Independent · ME· May 27, 2026

It was the failure to adopt any reasonable reforms that compelled me to vote against this irresponsible bill.

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Angus King
@angusking· Independent · ME· May 27, 2026

The recent well-documented conduct of ICE has clearly and repeatedly violated the Fourth and Fifth Amendments – with deeply unfortunate results.

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Angus King
@angusking· Independent · ME· May 27, 2026

It is a shame that it took nearly four months to pass this bill, and even more of an embarrassment that this bill passed on a partisan vote after several attempts at good faith bipartisan negotiations to put in place standards of conduct…

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Angus King
@angusking· Independent · ME· May 27, 2026

The United States Senate just passed a funding bill for Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) without any meaningful reforms to the conduct of either.

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Angus King
@angusking· Independent · ME· May 27, 2026

So, I believe and I would like your view, that a more diverse energy source, particularly one that's based on resources that we control rather than a worldwide price, would be beneficial to the country.

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Angus King
@angusking· Independent · ME· May 27, 2026

Energy dominance. You use that term 3 or 4 times. If $4.30 gas and almost $6 diesel is energy dominance, I'd rather go back to what we had before.

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Angus King
@angusking· Independent · ME· May 27, 2026

Our veterans served this country with grit and class, and now it is our turn to return the favor and provide access to the high-quality care and benefits they have rightly earned.

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Angus King
@angusking· Independent · ME· May 27, 2026

They have stepped up. But I think the American people should understand that we have stepped back.

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Angus King
@angusking· Independent · ME· May 27, 2026

And yet, this is, I believe, an existential struggle for the future of democracy where we had an aggressive country invade a neighboring country without any justification whatsoever.

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Angus King
@angusking· Independent · ME· May 27, 2026

One of the factors of this budget that has not gotten any publicity is there is zero funding for Ukraine.

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Angus King
@angusking· Independent · ME· May 27, 2026

If there has been such, I would certainly like to see it. You probably knew I was going to bring this chart. This is FTEs in the National Park Service going back 10 or 15 years. Here's where we are now. We were understaffed back then.

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