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Pingree Slams DOGE’s Plans to Gut NPS Funding for Tribes, Climate Resilience

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Maine First District Congresswoman Chellie Pingree is sounding the alarm over illegal plans by Elon Musk’s rogue “agency” to gut grant funding for the National Park Service. Many of the grants, including two in Maine, targeted by DOGE for elimination aimed to support Tribes and protect public lands from the impacts of climate change. Pingree, the top Democrat on the House…

Pingree Raises Red Flags Over Exorbitant Kennedy Center Funding Proposal as Trump Moves to Dismantle Arts Agencies

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Congresswoman Chellie Pingree (D-Maine), Ranking Member on the House Interior and Environment Subcommittee, is voicing skepticism and concern over Republicans’ budget reconciliation proposal for the Kennedy Center–which is nearly six times more than the annual funding appropriated through the Subcommittee.  “It’s hard to ignore the red flags here. While the Trump Administration is…

Ranking Member Pingree: Abrupt Cancellation of NEA Grants Jeopardizes Jobs, Main Streets, and a $1.2 Trillion Industry

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Congresswoman Chellie Pingree (D-Maine), Ranking Member of the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies, which oversees funding for the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), issued the following statement on the Trump Administration's abrupt termination of arts grants nationwide: The Trump Administration's sudden cancellation of hundreds…

Ranking Member Pingree: Trump’s EPA Purge an Unconscionable Attack on Science and Public Health

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Congresswoman Chellie Pingree (D-Maine), Ranking Member of the House Appropriations Interior and Environment Subcommittee, issued the following statement in response to the Trump administration’s plan to dismantle the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Office of Research and Development (ORD): Dismantling the EPA's Office of Research and Development is an unconscionable attack on…

Ranking Member Pingree Slams Trump for Dismantling Wilson Center, Warns of Dire Consequences for U.S. Arctic Policy

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Congresswoman Chellie Pingree (D-Maine), the top Democrat on the House Appropriations Subcommittee that oversees the Wilson Center, released the following statement in response to the Trump Administration’s decision to abruptly fire more than 100 employees at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars—a critical foreign-policy think tank: “The illegal…

Pingree, Merkley: EPA’s Elimination of Scientific Research Arm Threatens Clean Air and Water for All

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 Congresswoman Chellie Pingree (D-Maine) and Senator Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.), the top Democrats on the subcommittees that oversee funding for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), are sounding the alarm over the EPA’s illegal plans to dismantle the Office of Research and Development (ORD) and fire hundreds of scientists nationwide. In a letter to EPA…

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…

VIDEO: Pingree Says Republicans’ Full Year Continuing Resolution is Not a Responsible Way to Govern

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Today, Congresswoman Chellie Pingree (D-Maine), the top Democrat on the House Appropriations Interior and Environment Subcommittee, called on her colleagues to oppose Republicans’ stopgap funding bill. In remarks on the House Floor, Pingree argued that full-year continuing resolutions are not a responsible way to govern, and that Republicans should do their job and come back to the…

Ranking Member Pingree: Reckless, Indiscriminate Purge of Public Servants Will Have Lasting Harmful Effects

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In letters sent today to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), which oversees the United States Forest Service, and Department of the Interior (DOI), which encompasses eleven bureaus, including the National Park Service, House Appropriations Interior and Environment Subcommittee Ranking Member Chellie Pingree…

Ranking Members Pingree, Merkley Condemn Indian Affairs Hiring Freeze, Firings as Violation of Tribal Sovereignty

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Congresswoman Chellie Pingree (D-Maine) and Senator Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.), the top Democrats on the subcommittees that oversee funding for the Department of the Interior (DOI), demanded the Trump Administration immediately reinstate terminated Indian Affairs employees, lift the hiring freeze, and officially rescind the deferred resignation and early retirement offers. As Ranking…

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