Press Releases

Congresswoman Chellie Pingree (D-Maine) released the following statement in response to President Trump’s one-on-one meeting with Vladimir Putin and subsequent joint press conference:

“Less than 72 hours after a dozen Russian intelligence officials were indicted for hacking our elections President Trump shamefully stood on the world stage and declared his support for Russia and undermined our nation’s intelligence and law enforcement agencies. As an American who remembers doing duck and cover drills in school and the terror of the Cold War, I was appalled to see our President call America’s foreign policy ‘stupid’ and ‘foolish’ and even more disturbed that he will not accept that Russia launched a coordinated cyberattack on our country and we have every reason to believe Vladimir Putin will do so again.
 
“It is telling that the Trump Administration has requested no funds for election security grants and House Republicans have failed to fund them. In fact, the Republican-backed Financial Services Appropriations bill which will be on the floor this week reduces this fund from $380 million to zero dollars, despite efforts by Democratic appropriators to restore this crucial funding. This is unacceptable. The integrity of our democracy is at stake. I call on my Republican colleagues to join me on the House floor this week to restore funding for election security grants which are even more critical in the face of the President’s complicity.”