Angus King: “We, therefore, ask you to withdraw OPM and MSPB's proposed rule.”

“I think somehow we have to get back to the idea that we can have opponents who aren’t enemies,” he added.

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.

President Trump is having enough difficulty doing his job; Congress should take this opportunity to do ours.

“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.