The Maine Democratic Party faults her for voting against an amendment on Trump’s border wall, but she says it was the wrong legislation to address presidential overreach.
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Sen. Collins joins bipartisan effort to end Trump’s use of military funds for wall
She views the resolution to end the president’s national emergency as a way to block overreach by the executive branch.
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NOAA chief thanks Alabama weather office in wake of Dorian forecast controversy
The head of NOAA both defended the administration and thanked a local weather office that contradicted Trump’s claims about Hurricane Dorian’s threat to Alabama.
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Trump fires national security adviser John Bolton, says they ‘disagreed strongly’
Bolton says he offered his resignation last night but Trump did not accept.
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Democratic leaders urge Trump to intervene with Senate Republicans on gun bill
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer say the president’s ‘urgent, personal intervention is needed.’
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Trump presents medals to officers who confronted gunman in Ohio mass shooting
The six police officers each received the Medal of Valor, established in 2001 as the nation’s highest public safety award.
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Trump says peace talks with Taliban are now ‘dead’
The president makes the comment one day after he abruptly canceled a secret meeting he had arranged with Taliban and Afghan leaders.
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Maine Guard members’ stay at Trump resort in Scotland part of congressional probe
Visits to Trump Turnberry by military personnel – including members of Maine’s Air National Guard and the Air Force – are raising concerns that the president is profiting from his office.
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J.P. Morgan creates ‘Volfefe’ index to track effect of Trump’s tweets on markets
Strategists at the bank developed the index by measuring which presidential tweets triggered big movements in Treasury yields.
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Trump’s planned Camp David retreat with the Taliban draws flak from all sides
The president’s surprise announcement, and the swift emergence of competing versions of events, is in keeping with his impulsive-seeming and highly personalized style of handling complex international diplomacy.