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waste, fraud, and abuse are absolutely rife throughout this budget. That's why we have a one point three billion overhang.

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Bobby Charles, at Maine Governor General Election Debate (Maine Public)

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Why we checked itSpecific dollar figure ($1.3 billion budget overhang) attributed to waste, fraud, and abuse — verifiable against Maine state budget data.
What we foundThe $1.3 billion budget overhang figure is accurate and corroborated by multiple independent sources, but the official forecast and multiple news analyses attribute it primarily to rising education and MaineCare costs under statutory obligations — not to waste, fraud, and abuse.
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