State House letter: Legislator to coordinate over $ 120 million output accounts and potential census in the middle of national fire storm

After a vacation week that ended with Maine in the middle of a national political fire storm, the legislators will return to the State House to face a problem with $ 120 million: the additional budget. The administration of governor Janet Mills said that the supplementary expenditure calculation was necessary to support Medicaid, in Maine as a Mainecare, and to avoid payments to hospitals. Mainecare was covered in the amount of 118 million US dollars. But the democratic majority in the legislature did not like the proposed solution from Governor Mills, since it was too strict in the department for well -being for the noncitizes. The result was Democrats, which offer a far-left and completed package that lost all GOP support, which means that the invoice was not adopted with the two thirds of support for emergency expenditure for emergency expenses.

In view of the fact that the democratic leadership has released the legislative calendar of all business previously planned, it is probably a long day of the expenditure fights, possibly more spending proposals than just the additional democrats that were abandoned on February 11. After the events on the White House on Friday, which was triggered by Rep. Laurel Libby (R-Bauburn), in which a viral picture of a male transgender men on a female pole won with the winning competition, the speech is also reacted to from Democrats, The libby censored because they appeared as a minor. Regardless of this, the tensions under the Maine Democrats are high – like an expedant loaded tirade from Mills chief of staff Jeremy Kennedy – ie things will be interesting on Tuesday.

From the house calendar:

Rep. Randy Hall (R) from Wilton was removed from the agricultural committee by the house speaker Ryan Fecteau (D-Biddeford). MP Hall was charged, but he had not condemned his day in court or in this case. Speaker Feceau has used its power to remove elected representatives from their committees in the past. ((For the complete disclosure, this list would include me again when I was a legislator.))

Rep. Drew Gattine (D) from Westbrook Is the house chair for funds and had three concepts that were transferred to the appropriation committee on February 20. These non -marked invoices LD 608, LD 609 and LD 705 are essentially placeholder, which could become the two -year budget with some minor changes. You could then be voted out of the household committee tomorrow and placed in front of the house and the Senate during the forecast marathon meeting of tomorrow.

Potential censorship orders For Libby and Hall, Hall would not necessarily have to appear in the house calendar. In fact, Democrats may want to avoid that Libby gives the opportunity to gather followers before voting. However, if this is part of the consideration, the popularity of the Executive Ordinance of President Trump can protect women's sports as well as the deep unpleasant Mills policy, which enables men to dominate women's sports that lead to democratic managers to avoid overall. Although a censorship vote would show the progressive basis that Democrats are fighting for transgender ideology, Libby would also drive to martyrdom status.