Everyday life is too expensive. Too many Mainers are worried about paying rent, putting food on the table, heating their homes, affording childcare, or getting the health care they need.
Maine should be a place where people can work, raise a family, and build a good life. That means building more affordable housing, lowering health care and prescription drug costs, expanding childcare and senior care, reducing energy bills, and protecting rural hospitals. We also need good-paying jobs that give Mainers a reason to stay and ensure seniors, veterans, and working families get the support they’ve earned.
We must protect the people and places that make Maine special. Our farms, working waterfronts, forests, and mills support communities already feeling the effects of climate change. I’ll keep fighting to bring federal resources home, strengthen these industries, and make government work for all Maine people—not just those at the top.
The first rule of lowering costs is to stop making them worse. Maine families are paying more at the pump, while tariffs on Canadian goods threaten jobs and raise prices on products families and businesses rely on.
To lower costs at home, we must build more affordable housing, expand childcare, protect health insurance, keep prescription drug prices down, and invest in clean energy and weatherization. Strengthening Social Security and Medicare, raising wages, and expanding the Child Tax Credit will also help working families keep more of what they earn.
I’ll take on corporations and special interests that use crises to raise prices and pad profits. Congress should investigate price-gouging and hold companies accountable when they break the law.
