so i don’t know if susan collins knows this but she belongs to a body that has the constitutionally designated power to tell HHS to stop making these cuts because they do not have the authority to unilaterally refuse to spend congressional appropriations.
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Senate Appropriations Chair Susan Collins slams the Trump admin’s NIH cuts as “poorly conceived” and says she has called RFK to “to express my strong opposition to these arbitrary cuts in funding for vital research.” She says he promised to “re-examine this initiative” if confirmed as HHS secretary.
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USELESS!
Correction:
USELESS WOULD BE AN IMPROVEMENT.
Right now she is a rubber stamp.
Think real hard, Susan…
…where did you leave your integrity?
Susan?
Come on Susan…you can do this!
You don’t remember?
Well, when do you last remember using it?
1996?!?
Oh, well…
I guess it’s time to declare it dead, then.
She'll "consider", "review", she will be "troubled", "concerned" but she will do NOTHING.
Collins said "Trump had learned his lesson". Then J6 happened.
NEVER expect Susan Collins to do anything against Trump.
Save yourselves.
Lie to his cult,over and over!!
She will not oppose anything he does, EVER.
She is beholden to Trump and not the Constitution or the citizens she is supposed to work for.
Too polite for any US citizens good.
(Of course, watch how she votes, what really matters).
They need to own it.
FAFO
“While they seem to lack any motivation to be good, they intensely desire to appear good. Their "goodness" is all on a level of pretense. It is, in effect, a lie.”
M. Scott Peck
“The People of the Lie”
Collins, as a Senator, is on the ballot statewide. So, yeah, she does represent all of Maine.
You’re embarrassing your. We see through you. You have no backbone. Enabling the idiots got us here.
Why does her state not catch on?
We need to flip the cliché and start assigning actions to malice instead of ignorance. It's physically impossible to be this fucking ignorant for anyone in their position.
Their refusal to act isn't innocent oversight. It's deliberate choice
Here's an idea of where Maine's GOP is at:
https://www.mainepublic.org/politics/2025-01-24/republican-county-committees-to-hold-event-spotlighting-mainer-pardoned-for-january-6th-riot
She is the type of enabler who needs to answer for what she is allowing F47 to get away with.
“I do intend to support his nomination...If there are impoundments, I believe it will end up in court, and my hope is the court will rule in favor of the 1974 impoundment and budget control act"
Do not TRUST Susan Collins as far as you could throw her.
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If there had odds on Hegseth getting drunk while watching the Super Bowl I would be richer today.
She’s fucking nuts. Or complicit. Or both!
I would suggest sending Dick Durbin, but he's in the weeds still because "this us all so new" to him, Senate veteran of 28 years.