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The Legal Opinion from the Maine Attorney General’s Office on the Mills Administration’s Welfare Car Giveaway Plan: “As it stands it is difficult to tell how, exactly, the program is supposed to work”

Last June, the Mills Administration wanted to give people on welfare new and recent-model cars for pennies on the dollar. In December, the day after MPBP put in a public documents request, DHHS killed the program. Here’s what we have discovered was going on behind the scenes.

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Analysis of Mills Administration FY21 Supplemental and FY22–23 Biennial Budgets

Given the precarious position of Maine’s economy because of continued limitations imposed on business operations and travel as well as the fallout from remote work and how that will affect the commercial real estate markets in Maine, it is difficult to predict whether the money Governor Mills has set aside will be enough to meet Maine’s needs, if—in the unlikely scenario—it remains unspent by the Legislature.

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