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"content": "\u003cp>Equal Pay Day has come around again.\u003c/p>\u003cp>The annual observance marks how far into the new year women must work to make what men earned in the previous year. This year, it's March 26, a day later than it was in 2025.\u003c/p>\u003cp>That's because for the second year in a row, the gender pay gap in the U.S. has widened.\u003c/p>\u003cp>According to the most recent data from the Census Bureau, women working full-time, year-round, now earn 81 cents for every dollar men earn. That's down from 83 cents a year ago, and 84 cents the year prior.\u003c/p>\u003cp>It's the first consecutive widening of the wage gap since the 1960s, says Deborah Vagins, director of the Equal Pay Today, a national coalition that organizes not just one, but nine annual observances, marking equal pay days for different groups of women.\u003c/p>\u003cp>This year, Black Women's Equal Pay Day will be marked on July 21. Moms' Equal Pay Day is August 6. Latina Equal Pay Day is October 8.\u003c/p>\u003cp>\"We are reversing decades of hard won progress,\" Vagins says.\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Wage gap grew under Biden\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\u003c/p>\u003cp>While some fear that policies the Trump administration is now pursuing could exacerbate the wage gap, the Census data used to calculate the equal pay date does not reflect that because it's from 2024, when Joe Biden was president. Data from 2025 will be released this fall.\u003c/p>\u003cp>One explanation for the growing gap, offered by the Census Bureau, is that men's median income grew by 3.7% between 2023 and 2024 while women's median income remained stagnant.\u003c/p>\u003cp>The Biden administration, in fact, was supportive of equal pay efforts and took steps aimed at \u003ca href=\"https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/fact-sheet-equal-pay-day-the-biden-harris-administration-announces-actions-continue\" target=\"_blank\">narrowing the wage gap among federal workers and contractors\u003c/a>. But beyond that, advocates ran into resistance from Congress.\u003c/p>\u003cp>The Equal Pay Today coalition unsuccessfully pushed for federal pay transparency laws that would have required employers to provide salary ranges in job postings and banned them from seeking candidates' pay histories.\u003c/p>\u003cp>\"Even a well-meaning employer could carry forward the effects of prior employers' pay discrimination,\" says Vagins.\u003c/p>\u003cp>A number of states already have passed such laws. Studies have found \u003ca href=\"https://iwpr.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Equal-Pay-Policies-and-the-Gender-Wage-Gap_Compilation_20220125_FINAL.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">mixed results\u003c/a>. While pay transparency does reduce inequities, it doesn't always lead to higher wages for women. Still, Vagins believes closing the wage gap without such laws will be difficult.\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003ch3>A window into pay disparities closed\u003c/h3>\u003c/p>\u003cp>In fact, there are fewer tools to narrow the pay gap now than there once were. Under the Obama administration, Vagins worked at the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, where she helped to push through a requirement that employers submit pay data, broken down by sex, ethnicity and race, to the government.\u003c/p>\u003cp>\"That data collection showed there [were] still vast pay disparities by occupation, that occupational segregation remained extremely high for certain fields,\" she says.\u003c/p>\u003cp>Two years in, the first Trump administration stopped the initiative, citing its burden to employers.\u003c/p>\u003cp>Now, the coalition is hoping for a changeover in Congress to revive the effort.\u003c/p>\u003cp>\"If you can't measure what's going on, you can't fix it,\" says Vagins.\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>The wage gap shapes lives\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\u003c/p>\u003cp>While no single factor drives the wage gap, occupational segregation accounts for a large part of it. There are far more women than men doing low-wage work in restaurants, hotel housekeeping, and child care. Even within occupations, there are disparities. Studies have found male doctors earn higher wages than female doctors across all specialties.\u003c/p>\u003cp>Vagins says wage gaps affect women throughout their entire lives, translating into less savings for retirement, smaller social security checks, and limits on women's ability to create generational wealth for their kids and grandkids.\u003c/p>\u003cp>\"It has very, very long-lasting impacts,\" she says.\u003cbr> \u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2026 NPR\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Equal Pay Day has come around again.\u003c/p>\u003cp>The annual observance marks how far into the new year women must work to make what men earned in the previous year. This year, it's March 26, a day later than it was in 2025.\u003c/p>\u003cp>That's because for the second year in a row, the gender pay gap in the U.S. has widened.\u003c/p>\u003cp>According to the most recent data from the Census Bureau, women working full-time, year-round, now earn 81 cents for every dollar men earn. That's down from 83 cents a year ago, and 84 cents the year prior.\u003c/p>\u003cp>It's the first consecutive widening of the wage gap since the 1960s, says Deborah Vagins, director of the Equal Pay Today, a national coalition that organizes not just one, but nine annual observances, marking equal pay days for different groups of women.\u003c/p>\u003cp>This year, Black Women's Equal Pay Day will be marked on July 21. Moms' Equal Pay Day is August 6. Latina Equal Pay Day is October 8.\u003c/p>\u003cp>\"We are reversing decades of hard won progress,\" Vagins says.\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Wage gap grew under Biden\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\u003c/p>\u003cp>While some fear that policies the Trump administration is now pursuing could exacerbate the wage gap, the Census data used to calculate the equal pay date does not reflect that because it's from 2024, when Joe Biden was president. Data from 2025 will be released this fall.\u003c/p>\u003cp>One explanation for the growing gap, offered by the Census Bureau, is that men's median income grew by 3.7% between 2023 and 2024 while women's median income remained stagnant.\u003c/p>\u003cp>The Biden administration, in fact, was supportive of equal pay efforts and took steps aimed at \u003ca href=\"https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/fact-sheet-equal-pay-day-the-biden-harris-administration-announces-actions-continue\" target=\"_blank\">narrowing the wage gap among federal workers and contractors\u003c/a>. But beyond that, advocates ran into resistance from Congress.\u003c/p>\u003cp>The Equal Pay Today coalition unsuccessfully pushed for federal pay transparency laws that would have required employers to provide salary ranges in job postings and banned them from seeking candidates' pay histories.\u003c/p>\u003cp>\"Even a well-meaning employer could carry forward the effects of prior employers' pay discrimination,\" says Vagins.\u003c/p>\u003cp>A number of states already have passed such laws. Studies have found \u003ca href=\"https://iwpr.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Equal-Pay-Policies-and-the-Gender-Wage-Gap_Compilation_20220125_FINAL.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">mixed results\u003c/a>. While pay transparency does reduce inequities, it doesn't always lead to higher wages for women. Still, Vagins believes closing the wage gap without such laws will be difficult.\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003ch3>A window into pay disparities closed\u003c/h3>\u003c/p>\u003cp>In fact, there are fewer tools to narrow the pay gap now than there once were. Under the Obama administration, Vagins worked at the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, where she helped to push through a requirement that employers submit pay data, broken down by sex, ethnicity and race, to the government.\u003c/p>\u003cp>\"That data collection showed there [were] still vast pay disparities by occupation, that occupational segregation remained extremely high for certain fields,\" she says.\u003c/p>\u003cp>Two years in, the first Trump administration stopped the initiative, citing its burden to employers.\u003c/p>\u003cp>Now, the coalition is hoping for a changeover in Congress to revive the effort.\u003c/p>\u003cp>\"If you can't measure what's going on, you can't fix it,\" says Vagins.\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>The wage gap shapes lives\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\u003c/p>\u003cp>While no single factor drives the wage gap, occupational segregation accounts for a large part of it. There are far more women than men doing low-wage work in restaurants, hotel housekeeping, and child care. Even within occupations, there are disparities. Studies have found male doctors earn higher wages than female doctors across all specialties.\u003c/p>\u003cp>Vagins says wage gaps affect women throughout their entire lives, translating into less savings for retirement, smaller social security checks, and limits on women's ability to create generational wealth for their kids and grandkids.\u003c/p>\u003cp>\"It has very, very long-lasting impacts,\" she says.\u003cbr> \u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2026 NPR\u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"excerpt": "As June's primary election nears, Democratic Gov. Janet Mills and combat veteran Graham Platner are effectively engaged in a proxy battle between factions in their own party.",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cdiv class=\"storyMajorUpdateDate\"> \u003cstrong>Updated March 26, 2026 at 10:20 AM ET\u003c/strong>\u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>AUGUSTA, Maine — An increasingly \u003ca href=\"https://www.mainepublic.org/politics/2026-03-18/in-attacking-graham-platner-maine-gov-janet-mills-hopes-women-will-energize-her-u-s-senate-bid\" target=\"_blank\">bruising primary\u003c/a> between the two leading Democratic candidates vying to topple Republican Sen. Susan Collins has both contenders dipping deep into their campaign coffers, while Collins has so far spent little on her reelection bid.\u003c/p>\u003cp>Democrats' long-shot bid to retake the U.S. Senate hinges on several key races this year, including the U.S. Senate race in Maine to defeat Collins. With over two months remaining until the June 9 primary election, Democratic Gov. Janet Mills and combat veteran turned oyster farmer Graham Platner are effectively engaged in a proxy battle between warring factions in the Democratic Party.\u003c/p>\u003cp>Meanwhile, the massive Republican effort to return Collins to the Senate for a sixth term is in high gear. The outside groups supporting Collins are outspending both the leading Democrats and the groups supporting their bids.\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003ch3>Dueling visions of who can unseat Collins \u003c/h3>\u003c/p>\u003cp>Mills was \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/10/14/nx-s1-5570893/janet-mills-susan-collins-maine-senate\" target=\"_blank\">recruited\u003c/a> by Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., while Platner, a political newcomer, quickly won the \u003ca href=\"https://www.mainepublic.org/politics/2025-09-01/bernie-sanders-rallies-thousands-in-portland-on-fighting-oligarchy-tour-stop\" target=\"_blank\">endorsement\u003c/a> of Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., after launching his campaign in August.\u003c/p>\u003cp>Platner entered the race before Mills, quickly gaining support with a message that partially tapped Democrats' disenchantment with party leaders in Washington, D.C., who he claimed had abandoned working-class Mainers and ran unsuccessful campaigns against Collins using \"the same old, tired playbook.\"\u003c/p>\u003cp>He drew large crowds to his circuit of town halls, but some party leaders like Schumer have argued that Mills is the better bet to beat Collins because she has won two statewide elections.\u003c/p>\u003cp>In October, just days after Mills entered the race, \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/16/politics/kfile-graham-platner-maine-senate-candidate-deleted-reddit-posts\" target=\"_blank\">CNN reported \u003c/a>on details of old and offensive social media posts that were deleted before Platner launched his campaign. Platner later acknowledged the posts belonged to him.\u003c/p>\u003cp>While the social media posts — and a \u003ca href=\"https://www.mainepublic.org/politics/2025-10-22/democratic-senate-hopeful-graham-platner-gets-tattoo-of-nazi-symbol-covered-up\" target=\"_blank\">now-covered\u003c/a> tattoo mirroring Nazi iconography — first appeared to doom Platner's bid, his campaign has \u003ca href=\"https://www.mainepublic.org/politics/2025-11-19/graham-platner-is-sharing-more-about-post-combat-struggles-has-it-made-his-campaign-more-resilient\" target=\"_blank\">proven resilient\u003c/a>. Recent polls from the \u003ca href=\"https://scholars.unh.edu/survey_center_polls/930/\" target=\"_blank\">University of New Hampshire Survey Center\u003c/a> and Maine-based \u003ca href=\"https://panatlanticresearch.com/omnibus\" target=\"_blank\">Pan Atlantic SMS\u003c/a> show Mills trailing Platner in the primary contest.\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003ch3>Mills attacks Platner's past comments\u003c/h3>\u003c/p>\u003cp>This month, the governor returned to Platner's controversial social media posts, triggering an \u003ca href=\"https://www.mainepublic.org/politics/2026-03-18/in-attacking-graham-platner-maine-gov-janet-mills-hopes-women-will-energize-her-u-s-senate-bid\" target=\"_blank\">exchange of advertising \u003c/a>that has largely overshadowed the Democrats' arguments to defeat Collins.\u003c/p>\u003cp>Mills' ad from last week focuses on Platner's 2013 post on Reddit about a website promoting locking underwear for women to guard against sexual assault. Platner, in a post that originally surfaced in October, responded, in part, \"How about people just take some responsibility for themselves and not get so f***ed up they wind up having sex with someone they don't mean to?\"\u003c/p>\u003cp>In the ad, a group of women, all Mills supporters, react to the comments while a narrator impersonating Platner's gravelly voice reads them out loud.\u003c/p>\u003cp>Platner first responded with a media event last week featuring an array of women speaking on his behalf. He apologized for the posts, which he attributed to the anger and disillusionment he experienced while serving in combat in Iraq and Afghanistan.\u003c/p>\u003cp>\"When I read through my old internet posts when they resurfaced six months ago, I was horrified,\" he said during the media event. \"I did not recognize in them myself or the man that I am today. I did not recognize myself in this person that was struggling to find meaning and posted awful things 13 years ago. I am sorry, but it does not in any way reflect who I am today, or the beliefs that I hold.\"\u003c/p>\u003cp>His campaign then \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/daveweigel/status/2034341651468951903?s=20\" target=\"_blank\">launched a direct-to-camera\u003c/a> TV spot responding to the governor's ad.\u003c/p>\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://emersoncollegepolling.com/maine-2026-poll-platner-leads-gov-mills-democrats-lead-sen-collins-in-maine/\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cu>new poll\u003c/u>\u003c/a> released Thursday by Emerson College shows Platner holding a significant lead over the governor in the Democratic primary election. The poll was conducted after Mills' attack ad had already been released on social media and aired by news outlets.\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003ch3>Collins sits on cash, while others spend \u003c/h3>\u003c/p>\u003cp>Last week, that ad buy, with at least one other ad his campaign placed, totaled more than four times that of the governor's campaign spending during the same time period, according to an analysis of data gathered by AdImpact.\u003c/p>\u003cp>His spending follows a trend so far in this Democratic primary contest.\u003c/p>\u003cp>Platner has outspent Mills on advertising, $4.2 million to Mills' $1.16 million, according to recent data from AdImpact, which has been tracking advertising spending since early last year.\u003c/p>\u003cp>His \u003ca href=\"https://www.fec.gov/data/candidate/S6ME00373/\" target=\"_blank\">campaign overall \u003c/a>has outraised Mills by nearly 3-to-1, according to the latest Federal Election Commission\u003ca href=\"https://www.fec.gov/data/candidate/S6ME00407/\" target=\"_blank\"> filings\u003c/a>, which run through last year.\u003c/p>\u003cp>There are outside groups aligned with Democrats, yet much of their spending has focused on attacking Collins, rather than supporting a Democratic primary candidate. Collins, meanwhile, has spent roughly $240,000 overall, according to AdImpact data. She announced her \u003ca href=\"https://www.nhpr.org/2026-02-10/susan-collins-formalizes-reelection-bid-will-seek-sixth-term\" target=\"_blank\">reelection bid\u003c/a> in February.\u003c/p>\u003cp>\"She can avoid spending money and let the others do battle,\" said Ron Schmidt, a political science professor at the University of Southern Maine.\u003c/p>\u003cp>The Republican effort to reelect Collins is in full swing.\u003c/p>\u003cp>In addition to super PAC support, she is also getting a boost from the biggest spender in the race so far, One Nation. One Nation operates as an issue advocacy group, a designation that allows it to spend on Collins' behalf and shield the identity of its donors as long as its messaging doesn't directly call for her reelection. Its just over $10 million in ad spending so far has been prolific, coming via television spots, web ads, text messages and mail. All focus on the issue Collins used to great advantage during her successful 2020 reelection: her ability to secure federal funding.\u003c/p>\u003cp>Democrats also have a similar array of super PACs and so-called dark money groups spending to influence the race, but those efforts have been largely overshadowed by the direct Platner-Mills contest.\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003ch3>Will infighting now affect Democrats' chances later? \u003c/h3>\u003c/p>\u003cp>Schmidt, with the University of Southern Maine, says early spending by Mills and Platner makes strategic sense. Platner is racing to define himself to Maine voters who don't know him, while the governor is trying to highlight a past that might dissuade Democratic primary voters from supporting him come June.\u003c/p>\u003cp>The recent attack ad, Schmidt says, is a direct appeal to female voters in Maine, who the governor hopes will back her primary bid and, ultimately, boost her chances of defeating Collins. The governor's decision to attack Platner could pay off in the primary, but Schmidt warns that it comes with some risk of alienating his supporters.\u003c/p>\u003cp>\"They might just turn off for this election period, which could benefit her in a primary, but it could definitely work against her in a general election,\" he said.\u003c/p>\u003cp>Mills, who has framed her candidacy around her confrontations with President Trump and electability, told reporters last week that her focus on her rival's social media history is necessary and that \"it's important that Maine voters hear Platner's own words and the absolutely abhorrent things that he has said.\"\u003c/p>\u003cp>Platner, meanwhile, has described the attacks as an effort by the Democratic establishment to destroy his candidacy.\u003c/p>\u003cp>\"It takes political courage to come out against those in power, and it is not lost on me what this means,\" he said after thanking supporters last week.\u003cbr> \u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2026 Maine Public News\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cdiv class=\"storyMajorUpdateDate\"> \u003cstrong>Updated March 26, 2026 at 10:20 AM ET\u003c/strong>\u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>AUGUSTA, Maine — An increasingly \u003ca href=\"https://www.mainepublic.org/politics/2026-03-18/in-attacking-graham-platner-maine-gov-janet-mills-hopes-women-will-energize-her-u-s-senate-bid\" target=\"_blank\">bruising primary\u003c/a> between the two leading Democratic candidates vying to topple Republican Sen. Susan Collins has both contenders dipping deep into their campaign coffers, while Collins has so far spent little on her reelection bid.\u003c/p>\u003cp>Democrats' long-shot bid to retake the U.S. Senate hinges on several key races this year, including the U.S. Senate race in Maine to defeat Collins. With over two months remaining until the June 9 primary election, Democratic Gov. Janet Mills and combat veteran turned oyster farmer Graham Platner are effectively engaged in a proxy battle between warring factions in the Democratic Party.\u003c/p>\u003cp>Meanwhile, the massive Republican effort to return Collins to the Senate for a sixth term is in high gear. The outside groups supporting Collins are outspending both the leading Democrats and the groups supporting their bids.\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003ch3>Dueling visions of who can unseat Collins \u003c/h3>\u003c/p>\u003cp>Mills was \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/10/14/nx-s1-5570893/janet-mills-susan-collins-maine-senate\" target=\"_blank\">recruited\u003c/a> by Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., while Platner, a political newcomer, quickly won the \u003ca href=\"https://www.mainepublic.org/politics/2025-09-01/bernie-sanders-rallies-thousands-in-portland-on-fighting-oligarchy-tour-stop\" target=\"_blank\">endorsement\u003c/a> of Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., after launching his campaign in August.\u003c/p>\u003cp>Platner entered the race before Mills, quickly gaining support with a message that partially tapped Democrats' disenchantment with party leaders in Washington, D.C., who he claimed had abandoned working-class Mainers and ran unsuccessful campaigns against Collins using \"the same old, tired playbook.\"\u003c/p>\u003cp>He drew large crowds to his circuit of town halls, but some party leaders like Schumer have argued that Mills is the better bet to beat Collins because she has won two statewide elections.\u003c/p>\u003cp>In October, just days after Mills entered the race, \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/16/politics/kfile-graham-platner-maine-senate-candidate-deleted-reddit-posts\" target=\"_blank\">CNN reported \u003c/a>on details of old and offensive social media posts that were deleted before Platner launched his campaign. Platner later acknowledged the posts belonged to him.\u003c/p>\u003cp>While the social media posts — and a \u003ca href=\"https://www.mainepublic.org/politics/2025-10-22/democratic-senate-hopeful-graham-platner-gets-tattoo-of-nazi-symbol-covered-up\" target=\"_blank\">now-covered\u003c/a> tattoo mirroring Nazi iconography — first appeared to doom Platner's bid, his campaign has \u003ca href=\"https://www.mainepublic.org/politics/2025-11-19/graham-platner-is-sharing-more-about-post-combat-struggles-has-it-made-his-campaign-more-resilient\" target=\"_blank\">proven resilient\u003c/a>. Recent polls from the \u003ca href=\"https://scholars.unh.edu/survey_center_polls/930/\" target=\"_blank\">University of New Hampshire Survey Center\u003c/a> and Maine-based \u003ca href=\"https://panatlanticresearch.com/omnibus\" target=\"_blank\">Pan Atlantic SMS\u003c/a> show Mills trailing Platner in the primary contest.\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003ch3>Mills attacks Platner's past comments\u003c/h3>\u003c/p>\u003cp>This month, the governor returned to Platner's controversial social media posts, triggering an \u003ca href=\"https://www.mainepublic.org/politics/2026-03-18/in-attacking-graham-platner-maine-gov-janet-mills-hopes-women-will-energize-her-u-s-senate-bid\" target=\"_blank\">exchange of advertising \u003c/a>that has largely overshadowed the Democrats' arguments to defeat Collins.\u003c/p>\u003cp>Mills' ad from last week focuses on Platner's 2013 post on Reddit about a website promoting locking underwear for women to guard against sexual assault. Platner, in a post that originally surfaced in October, responded, in part, \"How about people just take some responsibility for themselves and not get so f***ed up they wind up having sex with someone they don't mean to?\"\u003c/p>\u003cp>In the ad, a group of women, all Mills supporters, react to the comments while a narrator impersonating Platner's gravelly voice reads them out loud.\u003c/p>\u003cp>Platner first responded with a media event last week featuring an array of women speaking on his behalf. He apologized for the posts, which he attributed to the anger and disillusionment he experienced while serving in combat in Iraq and Afghanistan.\u003c/p>\u003cp>\"When I read through my old internet posts when they resurfaced six months ago, I was horrified,\" he said during the media event. \"I did not recognize in them myself or the man that I am today. I did not recognize myself in this person that was struggling to find meaning and posted awful things 13 years ago. I am sorry, but it does not in any way reflect who I am today, or the beliefs that I hold.\"\u003c/p>\u003cp>His campaign then \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/daveweigel/status/2034341651468951903?s=20\" target=\"_blank\">launched a direct-to-camera\u003c/a> TV spot responding to the governor's ad.\u003c/p>\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://emersoncollegepolling.com/maine-2026-poll-platner-leads-gov-mills-democrats-lead-sen-collins-in-maine/\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cu>new poll\u003c/u>\u003c/a> released Thursday by Emerson College shows Platner holding a significant lead over the governor in the Democratic primary election. The poll was conducted after Mills' attack ad had already been released on social media and aired by news outlets.\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003ch3>Collins sits on cash, while others spend \u003c/h3>\u003c/p>\u003cp>Last week, that ad buy, with at least one other ad his campaign placed, totaled more than four times that of the governor's campaign spending during the same time period, according to an analysis of data gathered by AdImpact.\u003c/p>\u003cp>His spending follows a trend so far in this Democratic primary contest.\u003c/p>\u003cp>Platner has outspent Mills on advertising, $4.2 million to Mills' $1.16 million, according to recent data from AdImpact, which has been tracking advertising spending since early last year.\u003c/p>\u003cp>His \u003ca href=\"https://www.fec.gov/data/candidate/S6ME00373/\" target=\"_blank\">campaign overall \u003c/a>has outraised Mills by nearly 3-to-1, according to the latest Federal Election Commission\u003ca href=\"https://www.fec.gov/data/candidate/S6ME00407/\" target=\"_blank\"> filings\u003c/a>, which run through last year.\u003c/p>\u003cp>There are outside groups aligned with Democrats, yet much of their spending has focused on attacking Collins, rather than supporting a Democratic primary candidate. Collins, meanwhile, has spent roughly $240,000 overall, according to AdImpact data. She announced her \u003ca href=\"https://www.nhpr.org/2026-02-10/susan-collins-formalizes-reelection-bid-will-seek-sixth-term\" target=\"_blank\">reelection bid\u003c/a> in February.\u003c/p>\u003cp>\"She can avoid spending money and let the others do battle,\" said Ron Schmidt, a political science professor at the University of Southern Maine.\u003c/p>\u003cp>The Republican effort to reelect Collins is in full swing.\u003c/p>\u003cp>In addition to super PAC support, she is also getting a boost from the biggest spender in the race so far, One Nation. One Nation operates as an issue advocacy group, a designation that allows it to spend on Collins' behalf and shield the identity of its donors as long as its messaging doesn't directly call for her reelection. Its just over $10 million in ad spending so far has been prolific, coming via television spots, web ads, text messages and mail. All focus on the issue Collins used to great advantage during her successful 2020 reelection: her ability to secure federal funding.\u003c/p>\u003cp>Democrats also have a similar array of super PACs and so-called dark money groups spending to influence the race, but those efforts have been largely overshadowed by the direct Platner-Mills contest.\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003ch3>Will infighting now affect Democrats' chances later? \u003c/h3>\u003c/p>\u003cp>Schmidt, with the University of Southern Maine, says early spending by Mills and Platner makes strategic sense. Platner is racing to define himself to Maine voters who don't know him, while the governor is trying to highlight a past that might dissuade Democratic primary voters from supporting him come June.\u003c/p>\u003cp>The recent attack ad, Schmidt says, is a direct appeal to female voters in Maine, who the governor hopes will back her primary bid and, ultimately, boost her chances of defeating Collins. 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"content": "\u003cp>When President Trump returned to office on a promise of a historic \"mass deportation\" of people living in the country illegally, he quickly laid the groundwork for locking more of them up while they awaited the outcome of their cases. One year later, the costs of those detentions are coming into focus.\u003c/p>\u003cp>The price tag to expand the detention system in dollars is $45 billion, pushed through last summer as part of Trump's \"One Big Beautiful Bill Act.\" The money, to be spent over four years, is meant to increase the number of detention beds administered by Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE. At last count, in February, ICE was holding \u003ca href=\"https://tracreports.org/immigration/detentionstats/pop_agen_table.html\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cu>68,000 people, up from 40,000\u003c/u>\u003c/a> at the start of Trump's second term. The administration has a goal of reaching a total capacity of 100,000 beds, and it's launched a controversial effort to \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2026/03/17/nx-s1-5736087/ices-detention-expansion-meets-resistance-in-communities-across-the-political-spectrum\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cu>convert warehouses into holding facilities\u003c/u>\u003c/a> and aggressively \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2026/03/23/g-s1-114107/ices-growing-detention-footprint-and-the-communities-fighting-back\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cu>expand detention capacity\u003c/u>\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\u003cp>The cost to individuals' liberty is also increasing. The average \"in custody length of stay\" — which measures how long current detainees have been locked up — has reached 73.6 days. That's almost a week longer than it was when Trump was sworn in.\u003c/p>\u003cp>\"You're explicitly hearing and seeing the government using it as punitive and as a deterrent,\" says Javier Hidalgo, a legal director at RAICES, an advocacy group in San Antonio. It offers legal aid to migrants held at the ICE detention facility in Dilley, Texas.\u003c/p>\u003cp>Hidalgo says detention appears to have become a way to pressure people to give up fighting deportation.\u003c/p>\u003cp>\"Probably every single family that gets detained at Dilley gets confronted with this choice of, 'Hey, if you don't want to be here with your kid in detention going through these horrible conditions, you could voluntarily give up your case,' \" he says. Hidalgo adds that the facility prominently posts sign-up sheets where detainees can request quick repatriation.\u003c/p>\u003cp>Detention stays are lengthening in part because of the administration's decision last summer \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/07/28/g-s1-79972/immigrants-in-the-us-illegally-fight-the-trump-administrations-new-no-bail-policy\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cu>to restrict bond hearings in immigration court\u003c/u>\u003c/a>. It used to be the case that getting released on bond was the norm for people who'd entered the country unlawfully but had community ties and weren't considered a flight risk while their cases were pending. But that was a misreading of the law, says Charles Floyd, first assistant U.S. attorney for western Washington state. As an immigration judge, he pioneered the administration's current interpretation of federal law, restricting bond hearings.\u003c/p>\u003cp>\"It's the fairness of the thing,\" he says. As he understands the law, since someone intercepted at the border has to wait in custody, so should someone who's been living in the country illegally for years.\u003c/p>\u003cp>\"Until we decide whether or not you should be lawfully admitted — which is a legal term of art — until someone makes that decision, you should be held,\" Floyd added.\u003c/p>\u003cp>The administration's policy has faced legal challenges but remains in place. In the meantime it's created unexpected strains, which are disrupting the federal courts.\u003c/p>\u003cp>\"It was like an onslaught,\" says Troy L. Nunley, chief judge of the U.S. District Court in the Eastern District of California. He says last fall he and his fellow judges started to see a wave of habeas corpus petitions from people held in the immigration system, asking to be released. Nunley says habeas petitions jumped from 20 in September to 713 in January.\u003c/p>\u003cp>\"These are drastic numbers,\" he says. And it's getting in the way of the court's regular work, such as lawsuits and criminal cases.\u003c/p>\u003cp>\"We're pushing them to the backburner. There are a lot of cases that we could get to that we can't, because immigration is the order of the day,\" Nunley says. \"If there was a trial going on right now, I couldn't do a trial right now. There's just way too many.\"\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/trump-immigration-bond-habeas-courts-d1d1fa9b16365577651ef958a0ec342f\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cu>Similar waves of habeas corpus petitions\u003c/u>\u003c/a> have been swamping other federal courts around the country, especially those with ICE detention centers in their districts.\u003c/p>\u003cp>These costs are worth it, though, for supporters of Trump's immigration policies. They say the system has been too lax for too long, releasing people who they say, by law, should have been held.\u003c/p>\u003cp>\"It shouldn't be surprising to anyone that if you break our immigration laws, you end up in detention,\" says Rosemary Jenks of the \u003ca href=\"https://iaproject.org/\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cu>Immigration Accountability Project\u003c/u>\u003c/a>, a group that advocates for tighter immigration enforcement. She believes one benefit of more detention may be less illegal immigration in the future.\u003c/p>\u003cp>\"You have a deterrent effect because some people who are thinking about coming into the United States illegally think, 'Well, I don't want to be in detention, so I'm not going to go,' \" Jenks says.\u003c/p>\u003cp>There's also a belief inside ICE that detention is necessary to make sure people don't \"abscond\" from the system as deportation nears, says Claire Trickler-McNulty. She was an official with ICE during the Obama administration and part of the first Trump administration, and then again under Biden. She came away frustrated by what she saw as an institutional bias in favor of detention.\u003c/p>\u003cp>\"There is a sense that the only way to get to removal [deportation] is through detention, that only if somebody's sitting in a detention bed, you have them in custody, you load them on the plane, you send them back,\" she says.\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.dhs.gov/sites/default/files/2022-06/ICE%20-%20Intensive%20Supervision%20Appearance%20Program,%20FYs%202017%20-%202020.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cu>There is some evidence\u003c/u>\u003c/a> that alternatives to detention, including electronic monitoring methods such as smart phone apps and ankle bracelets, or regular check-ins with case managers, can keep people in the system during years-long immigration cases.\u003c/p>\u003cp>What has not been properly studied, she says, is how effective those alternatives are in the final stages of a case, when deportation looms.\u003c/p>\u003cp>\"We know that lots of people [in alternatives to detention] comply with removal orders,\" Trickler-McNulty says. \"They turn in their ankle monitors or their technology. 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That's almost a week longer than it was when Trump was sworn in.\u003c/p>\u003cp>\"You're explicitly hearing and seeing the government using it as punitive and as a deterrent,\" says Javier Hidalgo, a legal director at RAICES, an advocacy group in San Antonio. It offers legal aid to migrants held at the ICE detention facility in Dilley, Texas.\u003c/p>\u003cp>Hidalgo says detention appears to have become a way to pressure people to give up fighting deportation.\u003c/p>\u003cp>\"Probably every single family that gets detained at Dilley gets confronted with this choice of, 'Hey, if you don't want to be here with your kid in detention going through these horrible conditions, you could voluntarily give up your case,' \" he says. Hidalgo adds that the facility prominently posts sign-up sheets where detainees can request quick repatriation.\u003c/p>\u003cp>Detention stays are lengthening in part because of the administration's decision last summer \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/07/28/g-s1-79972/immigrants-in-the-us-illegally-fight-the-trump-administrations-new-no-bail-policy\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cu>to restrict bond hearings in immigration court\u003c/u>\u003c/a>. It used to be the case that getting released on bond was the norm for people who'd entered the country unlawfully but had community ties and weren't considered a flight risk while their cases were pending. But that was a misreading of the law, says Charles Floyd, first assistant U.S. attorney for western Washington state. As an immigration judge, he pioneered the administration's current interpretation of federal law, restricting bond hearings.\u003c/p>\u003cp>\"It's the fairness of the thing,\" he says. As he understands the law, since someone intercepted at the border has to wait in custody, so should someone who's been living in the country illegally for years.\u003c/p>\u003cp>\"Until we decide whether or not you should be lawfully admitted — which is a legal term of art — until someone makes that decision, you should be held,\" Floyd added.\u003c/p>\u003cp>The administration's policy has faced legal challenges but remains in place. In the meantime it's created unexpected strains, which are disrupting the federal courts.\u003c/p>\u003cp>\"It was like an onslaught,\" says Troy L. Nunley, chief judge of the U.S. District Court in the Eastern District of California. He says last fall he and his fellow judges started to see a wave of habeas corpus petitions from people held in the immigration system, asking to be released. Nunley says habeas petitions jumped from 20 in September to 713 in January.\u003c/p>\u003cp>\"These are drastic numbers,\" he says. And it's getting in the way of the court's regular work, such as lawsuits and criminal cases.\u003c/p>\u003cp>\"We're pushing them to the backburner. There are a lot of cases that we could get to that we can't, because immigration is the order of the day,\" Nunley says. \"If there was a trial going on right now, I couldn't do a trial right now. There's just way too many.\"\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/trump-immigration-bond-habeas-courts-d1d1fa9b16365577651ef958a0ec342f\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cu>Similar waves of habeas corpus petitions\u003c/u>\u003c/a> have been swamping other federal courts around the country, especially those with ICE detention centers in their districts.\u003c/p>\u003cp>These costs are worth it, though, for supporters of Trump's immigration policies. 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She was an official with ICE during the Obama administration and part of the first Trump administration, and then again under Biden. She came away frustrated by what she saw as an institutional bias in favor of detention.\u003c/p>\u003cp>\"There is a sense that the only way to get to removal [deportation] is through detention, that only if somebody's sitting in a detention bed, you have them in custody, you load them on the plane, you send them back,\" she says.\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.dhs.gov/sites/default/files/2022-06/ICE%20-%20Intensive%20Supervision%20Appearance%20Program,%20FYs%202017%20-%202020.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cu>There is some evidence\u003c/u>\u003c/a> that alternatives to detention, including electronic monitoring methods such as smart phone apps and ankle bracelets, or regular check-ins with case managers, can keep people in the system during years-long immigration cases.\u003c/p>\u003cp>What has not been properly studied, she says, is how effective those alternatives are in the final stages of a case, when deportation looms.\u003c/p>\u003cp>\"We know that lots of people [in alternatives to detention] comply with removal orders,\" Trickler-McNulty says. \"They turn in their ankle monitors or their technology. 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