Governor Janet T. Mills (D-ME) issued the following statement after the US Senate passed the 2025 Federal budget reconciliation bill”

“The President’s so-called “Big Beautiful Bill” – advanced by Republicans in the US Senate — will take away health care from tens of thousands of Maine people, jeopardize our rural hospitals, restrict access to reproductive health care, slash vital food assistance for thousands of Maine families and further drive-up energy coss that are already too high.  The bill will dramatically shift costs from the Federal government to the State of Maine —  costs that our state cannot absorb, upending our state’s balanced budget and the Maine economy.”

“Last year, the President campaigned on bringing down the cost of living and yet the cost of living has only gone up.  And now, the legislation finances massive tax cots for the wealthy on the backs of everyday Maine people and balloons the Federal deficit by trillions of dollars, while doing nothing to bring down the cost of groceries, cars, materials and other everyday goods.  President Trump and Republicans are going to hurt a lot of Maine people with this bill, especially those in rural Maine,” her statement ended.