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Maine
The year since Election Day 2025
GovBrief tagged 50 stories to Maine since Election Day 2025. Here are 20 worth remembering, 10 of them from Maine.
36days until Election Day, Nov. 3In Maine
10 storiesProPublica reveals FBI agents sought a pay-to-play probe of Maine Sen. Collins' dealings with a defense contractor donor before Trump's purge killed it.
Collins asked to thank shell-company donor
ICE arrests hit a record 43,000 in June and 1,593 daily in July, though 40% of detainees face only civil immigration violations.
Two killed in enforcement traffic stops
Trump overrules DHS Secretary Mullin's pause on ICE traffic stops one day after it began, following MAGA criticism the shootings response looked weak.
Neither shooting agent wore bodycams
Maine Democratic Senate candidate Graham Platner weighs his campaign's future after a former partner's sexual assault accusation surfaces one week before the state's ballot deadline.
Denies allegations, blames establishment operatives
Justice Department sues Maine, Massachusetts, Oregon, and Washington for refusing to issue undercover license plates to ICE agents.
Immigration is civil, not criminal
Maine and Wisconsin judges become seventh and eighth to reject DOJ voter roll demands, Trump-appointed judge says interpretation takes a sledgehammer to congressional balance.
DOJ 0-for-8 in voter roll suits
Oz orders all 50 states to submit Medicaid provider revalidation plans within 30 days, threatens aggressive audits, weeks after CMS overstated New York fraud figure by 4.5 million enrollees.
Fraud push follows $1 trillion Medicaid cuts
Justice Department investigates California and Maine for housing transgender women with female inmates, threatening federal funding.
Same official probing medical school admissions
HHS launches investigations into 13 states that require health insurers to cover abortion, executing a strategy the Heritage Foundation proposed in Project 2025.
Weldon Amendment used as legal basis
Federal judge vacates RFK Jr.'s declaration targeting gender-affirming care, ruling HHS exceeded its authority and calling the approach "break it and see."
21 states sued, summary judgment granted
Across the country
6 storiesTrump family crypto venture World Liberty Financial applies for national banking charter, months after Trump pardoned Binance founder whose exchange bought $2 billion in its stablecoin.
Family stablecoin worth $3.4 billion
Commerce Department imposes export controls on Anthropic's two newest AI models, forcing the company to shut them off for all users days after launch.
Verbal evidence of narrow jailbreak
DOJ creates $1.776 billion fund to pay anyone "weaponized" by past administrations as Trump drops his $10 billion IRS suit.
Drawn from federal Judgment Fund
Trump nominates Project 2025 workforce-section coauthor Dennis Kirk as Interior's inspector general, the office fielding five congressional requests including the Reflecting Pool review.
Watchdog seat vacant 18 months
Trump took in nearly $1.2 billion from his crypto ventures last year, a federal ethics filing shows, locking in profits as ordinary investors lost most of what they paid.
Souvenir coins now $1.68, down from $74
British police arrest five men suspected of preparing a terrorist act near RAF Fairford, the base US bombers use to strike Iran, evacuating 85 homes.
Revolutionary Guard called it "legitimate target"
Fighting back
3 storiesHundreds rally at ICE's Scarborough, Maine facility a day after agents killed Johan Sebastián Guerrero, with the state Senate president telling ICE to leave her state
Armed counter-protester removed without violence
Seven states sue to block the administration's $795 million deal paying a foreign energy company to abandon offshore wind off New York and New Jersey and drill oil and gas instead.
Move follows repeated administration court losses
Twenty-four states and 8 cities sue to restore the EPA's endangerment finding, the legal foundation for all U.S. climate regulation since 2009.
Courts uniformly rejected all prior challenges
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