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Public disputes concerning public expenditure, fiscal commitments, payments, budgets, and the use of taxpayer funds.
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3 statements on this page. Dates: October 1, 2026 to October 15, 2026
3 matching statements. Dates: October 1, 2026 to October 15, 2026
3 published statements. Dates: October 1, 2026 to October 15, 2026
1 published statement. Dates: October 6, 2026
1 statement on this page. Dates: October 6, 2026
Role at the time: U.S. senator and Republican Senate candidate
Response to this claim
Allowing the bill onto the floor let Collins pursue the rural-health fund, while her final no vote opposed its Medicaid cuts.
“But if I had not allowed the bill to go to the floor, I would not have been able to offer the $50 billion fund to help rural health care”
Jackson criticizes Collins's role in advancing the bill. Collins cites her final no vote and rural-health fund and corrects his committee attribution.
She supplies a justification for her procedural choice. Opposition to final passage does not make that defense a condemnation of her earlier action.
2 published statements. Dates: October 1, 2026 to October 15, 2026
2 statements on this page. Dates: October 1, 2026 to October 15, 2026
Role at the time: U.S. senator from Maine and Republican candidate for reelection
Statement summary
Asked about the Senate ethics complaint, Collins says the allegations are completely false and were rejected by the Justice Department, the FBI and the Federal Election Commission. She says a photo shows Kao met her months before he made any contribution and that he revived the story hoping for leniency.
“The allegations are completely false ... We have a picture of his meeting with me and with other people in my office that is many months before he ever made a single contribution ... He spun this story up again in the hopes that the judge would be lenient, or the prosecutor would be.”
Guardian report on Collins's answer to a reporter's question about the Senate ethics complaint over the Navatek allegations.
The case asks whether Collins traded support for Navatek's federal contracts for campaign donations. Collins rejects the allegation outright and disputes the account's timeline, so we used the denies label.
Role at the time: Republican U.S. senator from Maine, through campaign spokesperson Blake Kernen
Statement summary
Asked by the Portland Press Herald whether Susan Collins called Navatek CEO Martin Kao to thank him for a 2019 super PAC donation, her campaign spokesperson said there is no record of the call and that neither Collins nor anyone who worked for her believes she made it.
“Neither Susan Collins nor anyone who worked for her believes that she made a call”
Press Herald explainer on the campaign-finance and contracting laws tied to the Navatek allegations. It includes the Collins campaign's answer, through spokesperson Blake Kernen, to whether Collins called Martin Kao to thank him for the shell-company donation that ProPublica reported, and comments from campaign-finance experts.
Archived copy (opens in a new tab)The case asks whether Collins traded federal contract support for Navatek campaign donations. ProPublica reported that a Reed aide sought Kao's number because Collins "would like to call Martin to thank him." The campaign denies the call took place, so we labeled it Denies.
