Angus King: “I think we have to trust but verify.”

One of our nation’s most significant works of public art has stood incomplete for decades, right here in the U.S. Senate. I’m thrilled that the restoration of Alexander Calder’s Mountains and Clouds is moving forward.

This administration’s Office of Management and Budget has just unilaterally taken away 800 million dollars that Congress passed on a bipartisan basis towards key priorities – in blatant defiance of the Constitution and federal law.

“You can now lose your primary, not because of your position on abortion or immigration or trade, but because you’re viewed as not sufficiently hostile to the other side,” he said.

Why does he believe he can claw back a nearly billion dollars of bipartisan-approved Congressional spending?