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13 October
5:24 pm

I was able to get into the bill a fifty billion dollar health care fund for rural health care, of which Maine has already gotten one hundred ninety million dollars.

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Susan Collins, at Maine U.S. Senate General Election Debate 3 (WABI/WAGM)

5:24 pm
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Why we checked itSpecific dollar figures ($50 billion fund, $190 million to Maine) are verifiable and central to Collins's defense of her vote on the 'big beautiful bill'.
What we foundThe claim is accurate: Collins championed and negotiated the $50 billion Rural Health Transformation Program into the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, and Maine received $190 million in first-year funding from it.
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