BANGOR DAILY NEWS • June 27, 2025
President Donald Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” is running into hurdles as Republicans in Congress try to get the sweeping tax and policy measure to the president by his preferred July 4 deadline. The U.S. Senate was expected to start voting as soon as Friday on its version of the massive proposal that seeks to extend Trump’s 2017 tax cuts. The budget bill squeaked through the House by one vote in May. The bill may add more than $2 trillion to the federal deficit over a decade and leave millions more uninsured while extending tax cuts. A poll released Wednesday found fewer than a third of Mainers want Congress to pass the bill. The Senate version of Trump’s megabill will phase out clean energy tax credits that have benefited Maine. The Sierra Club said it was delivering around 1,000 signed postcards from Mainers to U.S. Sens. Susan Collins Bangor office Friday that ask her to save the tax credits and oppose a public lands selloff.