Chellie Pingree: “VAWA protections are critically important for our tribe.”

It’s a bad picture to start.

I’ve had others say, ‘When you take over, you need to investigate the s— out of what’s going on with the corruption in this government and all the things that have been dismantled.

I’ve had Republicans say to me, ‘I’m not that worried about the Medicaid cuts because you guys are going to take over and you’re going to fix it,

They (Republicans) know we’re non-functional.