LePage blocked policies approved by voters, cut services for families, shifted costs onto towns and households, and left federal funding unclaimed or unspent.

Beginning in January, tens of thousands of Mainers enrolled in MaineCare will face new work reporting requirements to keep their health care coverage. The new administrative burdens […]

The chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee vowed to act as she walks a tightrope in her relationship with the president.

Ride-share and food-delivery drivers have been making changes as a result of the increased expense.

SNAP participation nationwide fell by roughly 5 million people (12 percent) between the law’s July 2025 enactment and May 2026, based on the latest month of data.

ProPublica revealed that the FBI was circling Sen. Collins over a defense contractor’s donations — until President Trump gutted the unit in charge. Collins has since mustered a defense with a series o...

Some GOP lawmakers and oil industry reps are still fighting to stave off an announcement.

Since the passage of President Trump’s signature legislation, the so-called “One Big Beautiful Bill” in July last year, enrollment in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) has […]

Vance targeted ACA enrollment as part of a broader administration crackdown on suspected fraud.

After the FBI caught a defense contractor’s CEO making illegal campaign contributions, it sought to launch a sweeping political bribery probe involving Collins and others. Then the second Trump admini...

LePage said Monday that his son's father-in-law was subject to deportation despite holding a valid work permit.

The effectiveness of the SNAP program is hampered by complex administrative processes that create significant barriers for potential participants.

Maine has garnered national attention amid President Donald Trump's immigration crackdown, and the issue looms large in the high-stakes U.S. Senate race.

A long-serving Republican senator from a border state is warning Prime Minister Mark Carney against strengthening Canada's economic and political ties to the European Union.

One Democrat called Trump’s cuts to the federal workforce “the most expensive way imaginable to make government worse.”