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Maine should reduce total state spending below current levels.

Maine's two-year general fund budget is roughly $12 billion. This would shrink overall state spending rather than hold it steady or let it grow.

Bobby Charles

Republican
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The point is not to cut valuable programs, but to cut and end the waste, the fraud, the incompetence, the indifference and the corruption.

Press quote · Aug 20, 2026 · retrieved Sep 23, 2026

It's double what it was seven years ago. We will get rid of all of that waste. We will literally set up a kind of DOGE here in Maine, and get back to a Norman Rockwell accountability.

Interview or debate · Apr 20, 2025 · retrieved Sep 23, 2026

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