Sen. Susan Collins condemns Trump’s bid to cut foreign aid using ‘pocket rescission’

The Hill ^ | 08/29/25 11:05 AM ET | by Aris Folley

[RandFan]

I thought she might....

[dljordan]

Must be threatening her kick backs.

[RandFan]

Wow this is quite a strong condemnation

“Against the law”?

When has Collins cared about that and the constitution?

She sounds like a D yet has Trump to thank - in part - for her lofty position.

Interesting....

[wiseprince]

When you’re approaching a point when you can service your obligations from your debt it may not be the right time to make a tax and spender the chair of the finance committee.

[wiseprince]

Appropriations committee

[RandFan]

Yes. She has never cut a thing in her life

[PubliusMM]

Why doesn’t this nutjob simply switch parties? She’s a dhimmicrap, through and through.
And, as far as solving this via the appropriations process and reducing allocations via the Congress? Those clowns have NEVER really cut ANY spending. They do, from time to time, trim a little off the requested increases. And, THAT they call a spending cut.
Spit.

[cdpap]

Trump must be the first president to ever do this. It was smart of him to make up that name pocket recission. He sure is a intelligent man

[MrRelevant]

37 trillion Susan…. 37,000,000,000,000

[napscoordinator]

Yeah. Great. Let’s just ensure we have minority next year. She has to be on a tightrope for a win. So what if she’s not happy with this. Her constituents like her being down the middle. I like being in the majority. We HOPE we win North Carolina and Ohio next year. Now Iowa is open. We went from outstanding shape to hope it works out in the senate.

[Yogafist]

Trump sent the rescission to congress who has the authority to approve or reject it, what is she complaining about? She should get back to Washington and do her job.

[Zathras]

I just saw this a couple days ago.
The #1 person for Hollywood donations right now is Susan Collins.
She is being pressured to flip or leave congress.

[Dan in Wichita]

I know... it’s Maine, but Collins, just STFU.

[unread]

"A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly." "But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself." "For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men." "He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist." "A murderer is less to fear.."

― Marcus Tullius Cicero

[Biblebelter]

Suzie Q said NOTHING when the autopen prez was GIVING away billions by forgiving student loans and a myriad of other giveaways WITHOUT congressional approval.

Now she got her knickers in a knot because Trump is trying to claw back unwarranted giveaways that she claims required congressional approval.

Collins further confirms there is ONLY one political party in America and Trump ain’t a member.

[9YearLurker]

The power of the purse relates to spending money, not saving it. As long as constitutional, congressionally mandated programs are implemented, it is all to the better if the executive branch can save money.

[shelterguy]

Yup. Let her act like a dem. At least with an R next to her name it helps keep the majority. It is not like a conservative would ever win that seat.

[WellyP]

I guess her lobiest husband didn’t get his cut!

[antidemoncrat]

Susan Collins (R-Maine) aka Susan Collins (RINO-Maine)

[Starboard]

Yep, this threatens the grift machine.