🖊️ The governor will sign a new state budget into law.
◉ Mills will be surrounded by Democratic lawmakers as she signs a new state budget into law at an 11:30 a.m. ceremony in her State House office suite.
◉ The package, which will cost an estimated $545 million over the next two budget years, is an addition to the $9.9 billion state budget passed by Democrats in March. The newest budget started as a bipartisan one, but Republicans mostly abandoned it by the time it got to the chamber floors.
◉ That will have implications, since the simple-majority vote means Mills administration will have to wait until October to spend the money. But the items are not particularly time-sensitive, so it was a small price to pay for Democrats in a deal that includes start-up funding for a new paid leave program.
🩸 A 10-year-old from Maine will testify to Congress on diabetes research.
◉ Maria Muayad of Yarmouth will be in front of the Senate Appropriations Committee on Tuesday morning to testify to the importance of research on Type 1 diabetes. Her invitation came from Sen. Susan Collins of Maine, the top Republican on the panel. Watch the 10 a.m. hearing. |
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