Augusta, Maine – As Congress returns from recess and the Iran war debate continues, one thing is clear: Susan Collins enabled Donald Trump’s war and she’s benefiting from it.
Collins cast a key vote against a war powers resolution that would have stopped Donald Trump from dragging the United States into war. The resolution would have halted U.S. military action against Iran that Trump initiated without authorization from Congress.
And while Mainers are struggling and worry about rising gas prices, Collins is cashing in. Since the conflict began on February 28, her household’s stock portfolio has climbed – fueled in part by investments in oil and gas companies that profit off global instability and rising energy prices.
Collins and her husband hold up to $115,000 in natural gas stocks. Between the start of the war and April 1, those investments increased by as much as $24,480.
REMINDER:
- Collins votes with Trump 96% of the time.
- Collins serves as a “regular deciding vote” on “important Republican policies” and nominations.
Collins greenlit Medicaid cuts that are forcing 61,000 Mainers to lose their health care coverage and number of rural Maine hospitals to shut down.
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