Trump signed a handful of executive orders Monday, including declaring a national emergency at the southern border.

"It’s not his job to reinterpret the Constitution. It’s his job to follow the Constitution," Maine Attorney General Aaron Frey said Tuesday.

Two of the most vulnerable Republican senators ahead of the 2026 midterms voiced pushback to President Donald Trump 's sweeping pardons of January 6 defendants on Tuesday. Trump issued pardons for those convicted of crimes during the January 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol building as one of his first actions in office on Monday.

Equality Maine says it's not surprised President Donald Trump targeted the LBGTQ+ community in one of his executive orders signed Monday.

Some believe the administration will alleviate financial pressures and secure the border. Others worry of potential consequences to the climate and immigrants.

Sen. Angus King told Trump's nominee that the newly implemented hiring freeze of the federal workforce should not apply to direct-care workers. Doug Collins said he'll make sure that veterans have access to the care they need but did not commit to pursuing exceptions to the hiring freeze.

Maine Democratic governor has been more reserved in her response to Trump's Day 1 actions than some of her colleagues around the country.

Maine is joining more than a dozen states challenging President Donald Trump's executive order ending birthright citizenship.

Until the order, which Trump signed the same day he was inaugurated as the 47th president, the U.S. government has, at least the late 1800s, considered the child of any immigrant born on U.S. soil an automatic citizen, even to a mother in the United States illegally.

Attorneys general from 18 states sued to block President Donald Trump’s move to end a decades-old immigration policy known as birthright