Susan Collins voted to give ICE $70 billion with zero reforms as its agents killed American citizens and an immigrant legally working in Biddeford.
Senate Roll Call, 163, 6/5/26; New Republic, 7/31/26
On the war in Iran, on ICE, on drug prices, on the Supreme Court. Every time it counted.
The 96 percent: Bangor Daily News, Aug. 4, 2025, citing CQ VoteWatch.
Senate Roll Call, 163, 6/5/26; New Republic, 7/31/26
Five motions in March and April 2026 to make the president get Congress's approval for the war he started on Feb. 28. Five no votes from Susan Collins. Gas in Maine passed $4 a gallon on April 7. Her first yes vote came on April 30, two months into the war.
Senate Roll Call, 157, 6/5/26; New Republic, 7/23/26
Hers was the deciding vote. Four years after Kavanaugh voted to overturn Roe, she said it again: "I do not regret that vote."
Trump's first justice. Together with Kavanaugh, one of the votes that made the Dobbs majority possible.
“She's a team player.”Sen. John Hoeven, on her vote
In 2022, Susan Collins voted against Medicare price negotiation, a $35 monthly cap on insulin for people on Medicare, and a $2,000 cap on what seniors pay out of pocket for prescriptions.
PhRMA, the drug industry's lobby, wrote every member of Congress urging a no vote. She took their money and voted their way time and time again.
Three years later, drug company PACs put thousands into her campaign and PAC in the same month she cast the pivotal vote to move Trump's Big Beautiful Bill forward. That bill handed drugmakers a $5 billion win: it shielded cancer drugs from Medicare negotiation, so patients keep paying higher prices.
In September 2025, Susan Collins voted with Senate Republicans to defeat the effort to force the files' release. On Feb. 3, 2026, she stood behind Trump, hat in hand, as he told Epstein's victims it was "really time for the country to get onto something else."
“How good was Senator Susan Collins yesterday, by the way?”Donald Trump, the day after her Kavanaugh vote
“She's never let the Republicans down on an issue that really mattered, ever.”John Fredericks, Trump ally, on the Big Beautiful Bill
“I hope she wins. She's a good person actually, but we have to win. We have to keep the majority, otherwise all of the things we've done are going to go down the tubes.”Donald Trump, on Collins
“We have to keep the majority, otherwise all of the things we've done are going to go down the tubes.”Donald Trump, on Susan Collins
This seat decides whether Donald Trump keeps his blank check on power.