Retaliation: Maine first - Colorado next?
- huerfanodems
- Apr 8
- 1 min read
White House retaliation against Maine
Trump's playbook against Democrat led states is on display!
Gov. Janet Mills apparently hurt Donald Trump's feelings in February. The result has been a multifaceted offensive against the Democrat's home state.
The acting head of the Social Security Administration ordered the termination of two data collection contracts with Maine.
Trump’s Department of Education, for example, launched an inquiry against Maine last week, and this week, as The New York Times reported, Trump’s Department of Agriculture said that it had “frozen federal funding for education programs in Maine,
the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration sent a letter to Maine cancelling funding for Maine Sea Grant
Such tactics are plainly indefensible, though they’re no doubt intended to send an authoritarian-style message to every state: If your governor makes Trump unhappy, you might be next.
This isn’t how the United States is supposed to operate — and it’s not how United States operated before Trump came along.
Read the full story in MSNBC: https://apple.news/Ak28vcQrFRL6S3Dr56COTRg

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