Angus King: “You should be. They're great, and I've never heard a negative word from a veteran about the treatment.”

This isn’t a vague legal concept they are abusing; it’s grade school-level American government: Article 1 of the United States Constitution.

And while we, as Americans, have had differing views on policy, we all believe that freedom and democracy are at the core of our country’s values.

“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.