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6 October
10:11 pm

In the past five years, I've secured one point five billion dollars for six hundred seventy two projects from Matawaska to Kittery, from Eastport to Rumford

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Susan Collins, at Maine U.S. Senate General Election Debate 1 (WGME)

10:11 pm
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Why we checked itSpecific dollar amount ($1.5 billion) and project count (672) attributed to Collins's work as chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee — both figures are verifiable against federal spending records
What we foundThe $1.5 billion figure for roughly 672 Maine projects since 2021 is consistent across multiple outlets, but all trace back to Collins's own Senate office as the original source, preventing a finding of fully independent verification.
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