In the early morning of June 5, the Senate voted 52-47 to pour nearly $70 billion into ICE and Border Patrol with no oversight, no transparency, and a new slush fund for punishing 'non-cooperating' cities. Here are the senators with report cards on this site who voted yes.
In February 2026, Trump bombed Iran without Congress's approval. These Republicans cheered it on, blocked every effort to stop it, and left us paying the price at the pump.
A new Susan Collins campaign ad brags that she protected Medicaid. It leaves out the procedural vote she cast to send Trump's Medicaid-cutting budget bill to the Senate floor — the vote a fellow Republican thanked her for.
Food, rent, electricity, healthcare - in America we should be able to afford these basic necessities of life without going bankrupt.
Susan Collins has supported the current administration's tariffs and other policies which have led to:
Half of all Americans struggling to afford groceries
47% struggling to afford their utility bills
47% struggling to afford healthcare
48% struggling to afford housing
1 in 4 Americans saying they have skipped a medical checkup due to affordability
23% skipping a prescription dose
Gas prices skyrocketing
Maine's iconic lobster industry is caught in the trade war. Much of the catch is processed in Canada and shipped back, and Maine exported $250 million in seafood to Canada in 2024. Industry leaders warn that tariff-driven uncertainty is driving down demand for Maine lobster and raising the cost of steel traps.
We are feeling this directly in our wallets. What is Susan Collins doing about that? Making things worse. We deserve better.
We all deserve access to quality healthcare so we can live healthy and productive lives.
Susan Collins disagrees:
She voted to let ACA tax credits expire, increasing health costs for millions of Americans, driving many of them to switch to cheaper plans or abandon health insurance coverage altogether. And the less people there are with coverage, the higher the rest of our premiums will be.
She supported Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s nomination for Health and Human Services Secretary, which has proven to be disastrous for American health.
An estimated 40-60,000 Maine residents could lose health care coverage under Trump's budget bill. Maine already has one of the highest uninsured rates in New England.
Collins postures as a moderate, but her opposition tends to arrive only once it's too late to matter. On the "One Big Beautiful Bill Act" — which cut roughly $1 trillion from Medicaid and health care — she voted to advance it out of her own Appropriations Committee, and let an early test vote proceed while she unsuccessfully negotiated for rural-hospital carve-outs, before casting the symbolic 50th "no" vote on final passage. The bill passed anyway, 51–50, on Vice President Vance's tiebreaker. As TIME noted, her protest votes are "as strategic as they are symbolic."
We need healthcare to live. Literally. What is Susan Collins doing to help us? Making things worse. We deserve better.
Wants to Gut Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security
Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security aren't handouts. They're earned benefits that we pay into out of every single paycheck, our entire working lives, so that we can see a doctor, take care of our parents, and retire with dignity instead of going bankrupt when we get old or sick.
For years, Susan Collins and her party have been quietly laying the groundwork to gut these programs. Now they've said the quiet part out loud.
They admitted the plan. Speaker Mike Johnson told the "Moon Griffon Show" that "entitlement programs like Medicare, Medicaid and things like Social Security ... have to be adjusted and fixed," and that "We have a plan to do that next year ... desperate times call for desperate measures."
We know what the plan looks like. The Republican Study Committee — a caucus of more than 170 House Republicans that includes Speaker Johnson and his top three deputies in leadership — released a budget calling for raising the Social Security retirement age for future retirees and converting Medicare into a privatized "premium support" model that would hand seniors over to for-profit insurance companies.
Even Republicans admit what "reform" means. Sen. Josh Hawley, on the push to "address" and "reform" these programs: "That's usually code for 'cut.' I'm not in favor of that."
It's a broken promise. Donald Trump pledged in 2024, "I will never do anything that will jeopardize or hurt Social Security or Medicare." Susan Collins and her party are now preparing to do exactly that.
Susan Collins's record. When the "One Big Beautiful Bill Act" cut roughly $1 trillion from Medicaid, Collins voted to advance it out of her Appropriations Committee, then cast a "no" vote on final passage only after the outcome was already decided — the bill passed 51–50 on the Vice President's tiebreaker, so her opposition changed nothing. Her independence consistently arrives only when it can't affect the result.
These programs are a promise: work hard, pay in your whole life, and your country will be there for you when you need it. Susan Collins wants to break that promise so she can keep cutting taxes for billionaires. We deserve better.
We all need to pay our fair share to the government so it can provide the services that benefit all of us.
But billionaires in the U.S. pay a smaller tax rate than most teachers and nurses. That's not fair.
The wealthiest 400 billionaire families in the U.S. paid an average federal individual tax rate of just 8.2 percent. For comparison, the average American taxpayer in the same year paid 13 percent.
23 of the largest and most profitable companies in the US paid no federal corporate income taxes from 2018-2022. And 109 corporations paid zero federal tax in at least one of those years.
Collins voted to advance Trump's budget bill out of the Senate Appropriations Committee — a bill that cuts Medicaid, SNAP, and programs for low-income Mainers — the day after a private equity billionaire gave $2 million to a super PAC supporting her reelection. She then voted against the final bill. But the damage was done: her procedural vote helped send the bill to the Senate floor.
Susan Collins is on the side of the billionaires and big business. We deserve better.
We all deserve clean air, clean water, and a healthy planet to live on.
Susan Collins has supported the repealing and rolling back of environmental protections and climate change regulations, all so that billionaires and big business can plunder natural resources and destroy our environment in the name of profit.
She has a 31% score from the League of Conservation Voters in 2025, and a 52% lifetime score. She chairs the Senate Appropriations Committee, which controls funding for every environmental program in the federal government.
We're all going to pay the price for this with increased rates of asthma, cancer, and premature deaths. We deserve better.
A good job where we can make a living to support our families, own a home, and have a good life. That's the American Dream.
Susan Collins supports policies and an administration that are turning the American Dream into a nightmare.
There were 20.8 million layoffs in the U.S. in 2025
55% of employed Americans say they're concerned about losing their jobs
The unemployment rate is 4.6%, the highest level since the pandemic
In 2025 the U.S. economy averaged just 15,000 jobs added per month, a dramatic decrease from the monthly average of 125,000 the year before Trump took office.
Overall employment for workers without college degrees fell by 361,000 jobs from January to September 2025.
58,000 net manufacturing jobs have been lost from April, when the administration announced "Liberation Day" tariffs, to September 2025.
Worked for Billionaires and Big Business and Not for Us
Our elected officials should work for us, the people.
Susan Collins chairs the Senate Appropriations Committee — the most powerful spending committee in the entire U.S. government. She controls every dollar of federal spending. Her top campaign donors are the Wall Street private equity firms that profit from the tax breaks she helps protect. Look at who some of her top funders are:
KKR & Co
Blackstone Group — Steve Schwarzman's private equity firm, whose CEO donated $2 million to her PAC the day before she helped advance Trump's budget bill
Apollo Global Management
Oaktree Capital Management
Goldman Sachs
RTX Corp (formerly Raytheon, defense contractor)
Pfizer
Susan Collins is funded by billionaires and big business. No wonder she's not doing anything to improve OUR lives. We deserve better.
Let Elon Musk and DOGE Cut More Than $153 MILLION from Maine
We all want a government that works for us as efficiently and effectively as possible. Unfortunately our government doesn't always work that way, so reform is badly needed. Given how big and complicated the government is, it's a tough problem that needs well-thought out solutions, so that we don't make things worse.
That's not what we got.
Susan Collins stood idly by while billionaire and ketamine-addled chaos monkey Elon Musk and his DOGE goons chainsawed their way through the U.S. government, promising to save the government at least $2 trillion annually in waste, fraud and abuse. Because they had no idea what they were doing and no one to stop them, in the end our government suffered, people suffered, Maine suffered, government spending actually went UP and Elon Musk became even richer.
Elon Musk and DOGE:
Had access to and exfiltrated (stole) all our sensitive personal information.
Kneecapped the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, which had returned over $26 billion to the American people since 2011.
Attempted to cut $4 billion in funding for medical research.
Will cost the federal government an estimated $500 billion in lost tax revenue (that could pay for programs for us), due to cuts at the IRS.
Laid waste to the employees at several government departments, removing their top experts and most skilled practitioners, and making their services less effective for all of us. This badly affected veterans, who make up 30% of the federal workforce.
DOGE targeted cuts at the Togus VA Medical Center — one of the largest employers in central Maine and the primary healthcare provider for the state's 100,000+ veterans.
We'd like to thank you, Susan Collins, for doing absolutely nothing while an unelected South African big tech billionaire took a chainsaw to vital U.S. government functions and completely failed to make the government more efficient. We deserve better.
As a member of Congress, part of Susan Collins's job is to act as a check and balance to the executive branch. She and her fellow members of Congress from Maine have completely abdicated their responsibility. These spineless cowards are rubber stamping everything Donald Trump wants to do, no matter how crazy, dangerous or harmful. And we've seen the results. We deserve better.
Susan Collins has called herself a moderate during her 29 year tenure But she votes with Donald Trump 95% of the time.
#BREAKING: Very interesting take by Chris Hayes on how Senator Susan Collins PRETENDS to be an independent/middle of the road Senator when she's really and truly, a hardcore party line Republican. A MUST WATCH for every Maine voter. Really good stuff👍 pic.twitter.com/eqe6ymhmlJ
We deserve to feel safe in our neighborhoods, schools, and places of worship.
In order to do that, we need to take real steps to prevent gun violence. And despite what we've been told, it is possible to support the 2nd Amendment and support common-sense gun safety laws at the same time. But Susan Collins has opposed bipartisan gun safety laws, while offering meaningless thoughts and prayers every time there's a new mass shooting.
A child or adolescent is killed with a gun every 2 hours and 48 minutes in the U.S.
Age-adjusted firearm homicide rates in the U.S. are 33 times greater than in Australia and 77 times greater than in Germany
Every day, 125 Americans are killed with guns, and more than 200 are shot and wounded
Women in the U.S. are 28 times more likely to be killed with a gun than women in other high-income countries.
In America our vote represents our will. It gives us the power to make the change that we want to see in the world.
Unfortunately that's not a sentiment that Susan Collins's billionaire and big business donors can stomach. Because when we have voting power, we use it to make our lives better, and they lose power. Read about all the ways they're trying to take away our voting power on our about page, then come back here.
Susan Collins has opposed legislation to make voting easier while supporting the SAVE Act, which would force every single American citizen to prove their citizenship status in person when registering to vote or updating their voter registration information. For the vast majority of Americans, this would mean presenting a passport or birth certificate at their local election office. This would disenfranchise millions of U.S. citizens: 146 million Americans do not have a passport, and 69 million women who have married do not have a birth certificate that matches their new legal name. Working-class and low-income Americans would also be disproportionately disenfranchised if the bill became law, as the vast majority of these groups do not possess a passport.
Collins became the 50th Senate vote to support the SAVE Act — a bill that could prevent 21 million Americans from voting — just three months after Maine voters rejected a voter ID measure by 64% to 36%
YOU HAVE POWER. Why else do you think Susan Collins and Her bosses are working so hard to take it away? Don't let them. We deserve better.
Whether white, black, or brown, we should all be able to live in America and exercise our constitutional rights without fear that law enforcement will turn on us.
But the current administration has created a secret police force that is abusing their power against anyone who stands in their way, U.S. citizen or not. They claim to be going after "the worst of the worst", but are taking daycare workers, day laborers, grandmas and kids who are valued members of our communities. And Susan Collins, staunch defender of the Second Amendment to fight back against government tyranny, is doing absolutely nothing while the government tyrannizes us.
ProPublica:They describe the legions of masked immigration officers operating in near-total anonymity on the orders of the president as the crossing of a line that had long set the United States apart from the world's most repressive regimes. ICE, in their view, has become an unfettered and unaccountable national police force.
ProPublica:Accosting people outside of their immigration court hearings where they're showing up and trying to do the right thing and then hauling them off to an immigration jail in the middle of the country where they can't access loved ones or speak to counsel. Bands of masked men apprehending people in broad daylight in the streets and hauling them off. Disappearing people to a third country, to a prison where there's a documented record of serious torture and human rights abuse.
New York Times:Masked and heavily armed, ICE agents are sent to cities such as Chicago, Los Angeles and Minneapolis to terrorize immigrant communities and brutalize people who challenge their efforts to stop and detain anyone deemed suspicious. To expand its reach, ICE greatly lowered its recruitment standards, effectively enlisting anyone who cares to sign up. To attract new officers, ICE advertises the chance to do violence to people deemed "enemies" of the United States, likening civil immigration enforcement to a war on a dangerous, alien force. The result is an agency whose agents' first recourse appears to be violence or the threat of violence.
They are executing American citizens. On January 7, 2026 an ICE agent in Minneapolis murdered an American citizen, a mother of 3, by shooting her in the face as she tried to drive away. Then the killer walked away, and our government lied and tried to gaslight us about what happened. Decent politicians condemned the murder. What did Susan Collins have to say? Nothing.
They are executing American citizens: Part 2. On January 24, 2026 ICE agents in Minneapolis murdered an American citizen, a 37 year old ICU nurse, who was filming their activity and trying to help others. Then our government lied and tried to gaslight us about what happened.
And the list of the dead keeps growing. ICE agents — on duty and off — keep killing members of our communities, while Susan Collins says nothing:
On December 31, 2025, an off-duty ICE officer in Northridge, Los Angeles shot and killed Keith Porter Jr., a 43-year-old U.S. citizen and father of two who was born and raised in Compton. Federal officials called it self-defense against an "active shooter," but Porter's family says he was peacefully returning home and never posed a threat — and witnesses reported only three shots, matching his autopsy and contradicting claims of an exchange of gunfire.
On July 7, 2026, an ICE officer in Houston shot and killed Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, a 52-year-old father of three and small-business owner who had lived in the U.S. for 35 years. Agents had been hunting a different white van. Harris County's medical examiner ruled his death a homicide, and his co-workers disputed ICE's claim that he used his vehicle as a weapon.
On July 13, 2026, an ICE agent in Biddeford, Maine shot and killed Joan Sebastian Guerrero, a 26-year-old Colombian father who was legally authorized to work in the U.S. and supported his wife and 3-year-old daughter by delivering food and cleaning a veterinary clinic. He was not the target of ICE's warrant — agents were looking for someone else — and were not wearing body cameras. Even Maine's Republican Senator Susan Collins urged DHS to halt non-urgent vehicle stops in the state.
It's happening here in Maine. In January 2026, ICE's "Operation Catch of the Day" arrested more than 200 people across Maine — cooks, health care workers, construction workers, and asylum seekers in the middle of legal immigration processes, including a mother followed home from school drop-off and a father running errands after his wife gave birth.
If ICE can murder innocent U.S. citizens without repercussions, what could they do to you? ICE is out of control and a danger to us all - no one is safe. What's Susan Collins going to do about it? Absolutely nothing. We deserve better.
Avoids Her Constituents and Refuses to Hold In-Person Town Halls
Good leaders meet with their constituents and have town halls where citizens can voice concerns, ask questions, and provide input on policies. Susan Collins doesn't want to hear what we have to say. She only wants to talk to her rich donors or people who agree with her.
Susan Collins has not held a public town hall since her first years in the Senate — over 25 years ago. She prefers private, invitation-only meetings. When Mainers organized their own town halls to ask her questions, she refused to attend.
Susan Collins is avoiding us because she doesn't care what we think. We deserve better.
Susan Collins had a negative net worth as recently as 2011. Today it is up to $9.6 million — a roughly 2,000% jump. She earned $342,520 in passive investment income last year. That is more than most Maine households earn from a full year of work.
And she got there by breaking the rules. Collins failed to report up to $395,000 in stock trades — 24 transactions more than 100 days late, from 2013 to 2018 — in direct violation of the STOCK Act. The same law she helped pass and championed in 2012. In 2026, she also failed to disclose a Pfizer stock purchase.
She now holds the 8th best-performing stock portfolio in the entire U.S. Senate — including Amazon, UnitedHealth, and Visa.
Now she opposes a complete ban on congressional stock trading — even as 81% of Americans support one, including most Republicans.
She is now finishing her fifth term — nearly 30 years in Washington — and in February 2026 she announced she is running for a sixth. If she wins, she will have served three times longer than she promised Mainers she ever would.
And when the old pledge resurfaced, she didn't keep her word — she moved the goalposts again. In April 2026 she suggested she might serve only one more term, then quickly walked even that back.
She told us twelve years was long enough. Twelve years ago was 2014. Susan Collins is the swamp. We deserve better.
Voted for Kavanaugh — Who Then Overturned Roe v. Wade
We should hold our leaders to high standards. Susan Collins calls herself pro-choice. But she voted to confirm Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court, saying she did not believe he would overturn Roe v. Wade. Kavanaugh then voted with the majority to overturn Roe, calling it "egregiously wrong" — directly contradicting what he told Collins in private.
Collins expressed "disappointment." But the damage was done. She helped put him on the court.
And that's not all. In 2025, Kavanaugh wrote the opinion that created what is now called a "Kavanaugh stop" — a Supreme Court ruling that lets ICE detain people based on their race, language, and appearance. A federal judge had blocked ICE raids for targeting people by race. Kavanaugh overturned that block. Now anyone in Maine can be stopped and held based on how they look or what language they speak.
Then, after 60 days, she changed her mind. The War Powers Act gives Congress 60 days to end a war the President started without their approval. Once that deadline passed on April 30, Collins voted to end the war. She was one of only two Republicans to do so.
But her vote came too late. The resolution failed 47-50. The war continued.
For 60 days, Collins helped block every attempt to restore Congress's role in deciding whether we go to war. She only acted once the law required it — and even then, it wasn't enough.
This is a pattern. She voted against Trump's budget bill too — but only after her procedural vote had already sent it to the Senate floor. She votes no when the outcome is already decided. When her vote won't stop anything. It lets her look moderate while changing nothing.
And by the way, just look at how much money Susan Collins has taken from AIPAC. Does Susan Collins work for Israel or the people of Maine?
We deserve better.
We're all going to pay the price for this with increased rates of asthma, cancer, and premature deaths. We deserve better.
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