U.S. Sen. Susan Collins said Sunday that lawmakers should move to reopen most of the federal government as a standoff over a proposed border wall on the U.S.-Mexico border threatens to prolong the partial government shutdown.
President Donald Trump told congressional leaders Friday that he would keep the federal government closed for “months or even years” amid a dispute over border wall funding, as the White House scrambled to unify the GOP behind Trump while some Republicans are showing impatience with the now 2-week-old shutdown.
Good morning from Augusta. Gov. Janet Mills hauled in nearly $277,000 in donations to her inaugural and transition efforts by late December, with 80 percent from corporate donors and most of it from the marijuana, financial, casino, lobbying, paper and energy industries.
During the past year, the violent deaths of two little girls and the prevalence of mental illness among teens in Maine’s youth prison have stoked worries about how the state cares for its kids.
Before the end of her first day in office on Thursday, Gov. Janet Mills signed an executive order directing the Maine Department of Health and Human Services to “swiftly and efficiently” begin implementing voter-approved Medicaid expansion.
The House of Representatives, which includes 63 new Democrats, on Thursday elected Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-California, as speaker for a second time.
Gov. Janet Mills announced Thursday that she will renominate three commissioners who served under former Gov. Paul LePage.
Good morning from Augusta, where Gov. Janet Mills has been sworn in but where attention remains focused on last-minute pardons issued by her predecessor and today’s first actions from a new congressman from Maine.
Good day from Augusta. Gov.-elect Janet Mills was moving into the Blaine House this weekend. She will take the oath of office to succeed Gov. Paul LePage this evening before delivering an inaugural address that she has only dropped scant hints on so far.
After an eight-year tenure presiding over a divisive era in Maine politics, Gov. Paul LePage, elected in 2010 on a Republican wave after a recession, will leave office this week on the heels of a Democratic wave and a stretch of record-low unemployment.
