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The tax and spending bill passed by House Republicans would likely result in 3.2M people losing food assistance benefits, and saddle states with around $14bn a year in costs, according to a new analysis from the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office. mainemorningstar.com/2025/05/23/r...

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Check out Maine Morning Star's round up of notable legislative action this past week. mainemorningstar.com/2025/05/23/a...

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A bill that would eliminate certain transgender protections in New Hampshire was approved by the state Senate Thursday and now heads to Gov. Kelly Ayotte’s desk. | via ‪@newhampshirebulletin.com‬ mainemorningstar.com/briefs/bill-...

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Read the final installment of the @mainemorningstar.com series “Restrained & Secluded,” a project with @chjreportinghealth.bsky.social. In Maine, schools are reducing how often they restrain and seclude students, but it’s still a problem. www.newsfromthestates.com/article/main...

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Proposed Medicaid cuts threaten to eliminate family planning services for thousands of rural Mainers. These cuts would devastate healthcare access across our 18 centers. Support LD 143 to protect care. 🔗 Read from @mainemorningstar.com: mainemorningstar.com/2025/05/17/p...

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At States Newsroom, we relentlessly report on how changes at the federal level are affecting people at the state level — and how state governments are responding in this volatile political climate. We post new stories each day; here are just a few.

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Schools are reducing how often they restrain and seclude students, but it’s still an issue. Read the final installment of our series “Restrained & Secluded," a project with @chjreportinghealth, and learn about how the state is addressing this practice. mainemorningstar.com/2025/05/23/h...

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RFK Jr.’s ‘Make America Healthy Again’ report stresses emphasis on children’s well-being | via ‪@jennifershutt.bsky.social‬ mainemorningstar.com/2025/05/22/r...

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U.S. Senate vote to nix California tailpipe emissions standard blocks Maine, 16 other states Maine Sens. Susan Collins and Angus King split over the emission rule, with King joining Democrats against the change. mainemorningstar.com/2025/05/22/r...

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The U.S. Department of Education must temporarily reinstate the hundreds of employees laid off earlier this year and cannot follow through on an executive order from President Trump seeking to dismantle the agency, a federal judge ruled Thursday. mainemorningstar.com/2025/05/22/r...

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The Legislature’s energy committee has yet to decide what it will do with a slew of proposals aimed at reforming or outright eliminating the state’s clean energy credit program. mainemorningstar.com/2025/05/22/c...

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Citing Maine Morning Star’s reporting, Democratic U.S. Rep. Chellie Pingree of Maine pressed the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on conflicting statements about why it cut grants for forever chemical research in Maine. mainemorningstar.com/2025/05/22/c...

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Congress begins considering first federal AI regulations | via @bypaigegross.bsky.social‬ mainemorningstar.com/2025/05/22/r...

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U.S. House Republicans push through massive tax and spending bill slashing Medicaid | via ‪@jennifershutt.bsky.social‬ ‪@ashleymurray.bsky.social‬ mainemorningstar.com/2025/05/22/r...

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Maine schools report thousands of restraints and seclusions per year, but the real number is higher | a project with ‪@chjreportinghealth.bsky.social‬ mainemorningstar.com/2025/05/22/m...

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Democrats on U.S. House spending panel grill Education Secretary McMahon over planned cuts mainemorningstar.com/2025/05/21/r...

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A bipartisan majority affirmed protections for gender identity, rejected name and pronoun restrictions and efforts to weaken Maine’s Human Rights Act, though split on transgender athlete debate. mainemorningstar.com/2025/05/21/c...

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Trump administration violated order in deportations to South Sudan, judge says | via @arianalfigueroa.bsky.social‬ mainemorningstar.com/2025/05/21/r...

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Though there are still funding details to sort out, a slate of proposals brought forward after 1,500 gallons of toxic firefighting foam concentrate spilled in Brunswick last August have been backed by the Maine Legislature. mainemorningstar.com/2025/05/21/p...

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“It broke him, and it broke me” Today, @mainemorningstar.com, working with @chjreportinghealth.bsky.social, launched the “Restrained & Secluded” series. www.newsfromthestates.com/article/it-b...

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A new analysis released late Tuesday projects the massive reconciliation package would decrease resources for low-income families over the next decade while increasing resources for top earners. | via @ashleymurray.bsky.social mainemorningstar.com/2025/05/21/r...

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The only Maine police department that has contracted with federal authorities to assist with immigration enforcement is pausing its agreement to see if the Maine Legislature votes to ban such contracts. mainemorningstar.com/briefs/wells...

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Maine law says educators should only be restraining and secluding students in emergency situations. But parents and educators tell a different story about how these controversial practices are being used. | a project with @chjreportinghealth.bsky.social mainemorningstar.com/2025/05/21/i...

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Rep. Chellie Pingree said the budget proposal is “a blueprint for dismantling the very mission of the Department of Interior, making it impossible to protect our natural resources and iconic national parks or uphold our commitments to tribal communities.” mainemorningstar.com/2025/05/20/r...

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During the committee hearing, Sen. Susan Collins questioned the health secretary about the proposed elimination of the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program, or LIHEAP. mainemorningstar.com/2025/05/20/r...

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“Bottom line, the American people have the right to know whether the future IRS commissioner is a crook,” Sen. Ron Wyden of Oregon, the panel’s top Democrat, said of Long’s work with a company that peddled nonexistent tribal tax credits. mainemorningstar.com/2025/05/20/r...

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The Maine Legislature is poised to undo a decision it made last year to join a pact that presents an eventual path to do away with the Electoral College. mainemorningstar.com/2025/05/20/a...

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Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem Tuesday was grilled by a Senate committee about funding estimates for a barrier along the southern border, as well as concerns about the Trump administration’s adherence to due process in immigration enforcement. mainemorningstar.com/2025/05/20/r...

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As health care providers warn of depleted funds hampering services, the Maine Legislature appears poised to close off a path that would make already allocated Medicaid funding available sooner. mainemorningstar.com/2025/05/20/m...

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The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday overruled the Maine House's decision to block Rep. Laurel Libby from voting or speaking on the chamber floor after she was censured for posting personal information about a transgender student on her legislative Facebook page. mainemorningstar.com/2025/05/20/s...

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Maine educators in some districts are physically restraining students and isolating them in small rooms, despite a 2021 law restricting the practice to emergencies. In a project for @chjreportinghealth.bsky.social, Maine Morning Star looks at the impact and data on this controversial practice.

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Dozens of people packed the Legislature’s Judiciary Committee room Monday, spilling into two overflow rooms, to testify largely in support of two bills proposed by Democrats that would restrict local authorities from carrying out federal immigration enforcement. mainemorningstar.com/2025/05/20/i...

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Golden said in the campaign announcement that he “considered many options for how best to continue serving the people of Maine.” However, he believes “the surest way to restore balance in Washington is for Democrats to win back the House of Representatives.” mainemorningstar.com/2025/05/20/g...

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Abortion providers challenge FDA’s remaining mifepristone restrictions in federal court mainemorningstar.com/2025/05/20/r...

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Following months of preparation after securing federal funding in September, a research team headed by the Mi’kmaq Nation received an email from the U.S. EPA's Office of Mission Support on May 13 stating that their four-year grant had been terminated. mainemorningstar.com/2025/05/19/d...

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The U.S. Supreme Court Monday will allow, for now, the Trump administration to terminate temporary protections for a group of 350,000 Venezuelans, striking down a lower court’s order that blocked the process. mainemorningstar.com/2025/05/19/r...

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Maine lawmaker seeks to refine ‘overly broad’ PFAS definition to allow for some pesticide use mainemorningstar.com/briefs/lawma...

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Hannah Lord of Maine is one of millions who could lose access to sexual and reproductive health care if the budget bill makes it to President Trump’s desk. Clinic workers, physicians and researchers say they are fighting to make their voices heard. mainemorningstar.com/2025/05/19/r...

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The fifth-generation logger announced Monday that he will join the Democratic primary, saying in a news release from his campaign that “too many Democrats have lost touch with working people or shown they’re not up to the fight.” mainemorningstar.com/briefs/forme...

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U.S. House Republicans on the Budget Committee moved the “one big, beautiful” reconciliation bill a step closer to the chamber floor in a rare Sunday night vote after a handful of conservatives blocked the bill Friday. mainemorningstar.com/2025/05/19/r...

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Former President Joe Biden has been diagnosed with “a more aggressive form” of prostate cancer, according to a statement from his office on Sunday. mainemorningstar.com/2025/05/18/r...

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Maine’s reproductive health providers are raising alarm about the thousands of patients that would be left without care if a proposal to cut off Medicaid funding from family planning providers comes to pass. mainemorningstar.com/2025/05/17/p...

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Abrego Garcia judge questions administration’s broad use of state secrets privilege mainemorningstar.com/2025/05/16/r...

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The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday kept in place a block on the Trump administration’s efforts to deport 176 Venezuelans in Northern Texas under the Alien Enemies Act of 1798. mainemorningstar.com/2025/05/16/r...

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Republicans suffered a major setback to their “big, beautiful bill” on Friday, when amid conservative objections the U.S. House Budget Committee failed to approve the measure, a crucial step in the process. mainemorningstar.com/2025/05/16/r...

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With other states tied up in a federal legal battle, Maine lawmakers are opting to pump the brakes on an effort to hold fossil fuel companies accountable to see how those other cases play out. mainemorningstar.com/briefs/maine...

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Check out Maine Morning Star's weekly round up of votes, debates and other action in the Maine Legislature this week. mainemorningstar.com/2025/05/16/a...

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Two sections in the House Energy and Commerce Committee’s reconciliation instructions would allow pipeline operators to pay $10M to participate in an expedited permitting process that would give the FERC exclusive authority to issue licenses. mainemorningstar.com/2025/05/16/r...

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“I actually think taking a break and being able to focus on one thing for a period of time is the way we can get the best outcome for Maine people," said tax committee co-chair Sen. Nicole Grohowski. mainemorningstar.com/2025/05/16/l...

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