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Pingree: Trump’s Latest Assault on Worker Rights is Explicit Union Busting

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In a statement on Friday, Maine First District Congresswoman Chellie Pingree condemned President Trump’s Executive Order to strip collective bargaining rights from workers across the federal government, calling the move explicit union busting that threatens the livelihoods of thousands of Maine workers: President Trump's Executive Order eliminating collective bargaining rights…

Pingree: Trump’s Latest Assault on Worker Rights is Explicit Union Busting

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In a statement on Friday, Maine First District Congresswoman Chellie Pingree condemned President Trump’s Executive Order to strip collective bargaining rights from workers across the federal government, calling the move explicit union busting that threatens the livelihoods of thousands of Maine workers: President Trump's Executive Order eliminating collective bargaining rights…

Merkley, Pingree: EPA’s Reckless Gutting of Environmental Justice Programs Harms Communities

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Senate Interior-Environment Appropriations Subcommittee Ranking Member Jeff Merkley (D-OR) and House Interior-Environment Appropriations Subcommittee Ranking Member Chellie Pingree (ME-01) denounced plans by Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lee Zeldin to eliminate all of the agency’s offices and positions related to environmental justice and diversity, equity,…

Pingree, Dean Demand Answers from State Department on Exchange Programs Funding Freeze

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Today, Congresswoman Chellie Pingree (D-Maine) and Congresswoman Madeleine Dean (D-Pa.) led 46 Members of Congress in demanding answers from U.S. Department of State Secretary Marco Rubio on the ongoing grant disbursement freeze of educational and cultural exchange programs. The letter to Secretary Rubio follows the State Department’s temporary pause on program payments with no advanced…

Pingree Statement on President Trump’s Executive Order to Dismantle the Department of Education

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Today, in response to news that the President has signed an Executive Order directing Secretary of Education Linda McMahon to dismantle the Department of Education, Congresswoman Chellie Pingree (D-Maine) released the following statement: The President cannot unilaterally shut down the Department of Education (DoED). It was established by an act of Congress. To dismantle it—as this…

PHOTOS: In Roundtable Discussion with Health Care Providers and Advocates, Pingree Stresses Urgent Need to Protect Medicaid from Republican Cuts

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Earlier today, Congresswoman Chellie Pingree hosted a roundtable discussion to highlight how proposed Republican cuts to Medicaid (known in Maine as MaineCare)—which could run as high as $900 billion—will have devastating repercussions for patients, health care professionals, patient-care facilities, and communities throughout Maine.  During the hour-long meeting, participants…

Pingree, 80+ House Democrats Blast USDA For Cancelling Program That Feeds Children, Supports Farmers and Food Banks

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More than 80 Members of Congress, led by Congresswoman Chellie Pingree (D-Maine), Congressman Jim McGovern (D-Mass.), and Congresswoman Alma Adams (D-N.C.), are demanding answers from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) after the Trump Administration cancelled two agency programs that help bolster local and regional food supply chains by purchasing food from American…

Pingree, House Ag Committee Democrats: Trump’s Trade Policy is a Bad Deal for Farmers and a Bad Deal for Americans

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Today, Congresswoman Chellie Pingree and Democrats on the House Agriculture Committee urged Secretary of Commerce Harold Lutnick to rein in the Trump Administration’s disastrous trade policies, including its escalating trade wars with Canada and Mexico. Pingree and her colleagues underscored the immediate and long-term impacts of President Trump’s chaotic approach to…

Pingree Statement on Northern Light Inland Hospital Closure

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Today, in response to news that Northern Light Health will be closing the Inland Hospital in Waterville, Congresswoman Chellie Pingree (D-Maine) released the following statement: The closure of Northern Light Inland Hospital is a devastating loss for patients and the entire Waterville community—particularly for low-income Mainers who already face barriers to affordable, high-quality…

Ranking Member Pingree Statement on Trump Admin. Plan to Eliminate EPA’s Environmental Justice Office

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After it was reported that the Trump Administration plans to eliminate the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Office of Environmental Justice and External Civil Rights, Congresswoman Chellie Pingree (D-Maine), Ranking Member of the House Appropriations Interior and Environment Subcommittee, released the following statement: The EPA’s decision to eliminate all environmental…

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