Angus King: “If retention is the goal, one of the ironies is that as you have gaps and you have longer hours and--that is a vicious…”

Maine has been hit especially hard by the run up in fuel prices since the beginning of the Iran War and the most obvious example is home heating oil.

The grave danger we now face is that the current administration has undermined both prongs of deterrence strategy in different theaters — a lack of will in Ukraine and a lack of capacity in Iran.

At the end of the day, this deal from the White House is an attempt to boost their short-term political prospects at the true cost of the American people.

Today’s call with President Zelenskyy and a bipartisan group of members of both the Senate and the House was welcome, informative, and couldn’t have been more important.