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I understand there's always room for rightsizing and analysis of staffing and those kinds of things, but this is not a gotcha question. I'm puzzled why the administration would cut by one third the funding of one of the most important…
Let's talk about the National Park Service. You and I talked about this before. [The] National Park Service budget is cut by one third. About $1 billion, which is one day of the Iran war just to put it in context. I don't understand why.
It ain't a partnership if one side has to give up everything, and the other side says, this is what we're going to do, and we're not going to give you any money to do it.
Budgets represent priorities, and it's fascinating to me that if you add together the cuts for service operations, forest and rangeland research, and state, private and tribal forestry, that pretty much exactly equals the proposed billion…
Veterans and military families should not see the value of their earned benefits undercut by rising costs.
What puzzles me is the budget that has been submitted only requests one. I don't really understand that.
The idea of building Naval Ships in a foreign shipyard I just don't understand.
There is talk around the budget about building ships and even destroyers in Japan and Korea. That is the worst idea since the Red Sox traded Babe Ruth to the Yankees.
One way to improve readiness is to repair our aircraft -- I almost said on the fly-- on the ground without waiting for the manufacturer to send a part.
There is no such thing as mandatory spending except in areas where there is a legal obligation to expend the money.
Unfortunately, in this case, at least two out-of-state circulators failed to follow Maine law, and that is why their petitions have been invalidated.
Citizen initiatives are direct democracy. Just as we take voting security seriously, we take petition integrity seriously.
If the DOJ wants to sue us over that, we’ll see them in court. And we will win just like we did [Thursday.]
We don’t have secret police in a democracy, and covert civil immigration enforcement is not something Maine will facilitate.
I helped pass ranked choice voting so you’d have this power. Use it.
I know Hannah and Troy well, and I know that we share the same commitment to progressive change for the people of Maine.
After my exchange with Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche, I do not support the creation of the proposed Anti-Weaponization Fund,
Let me clear – Trump and the DOJ may continue to try to interfere with free and fair elections run by the states. We will not let them.