On the verge of leaving office, Janet Mills becomes an anti-Trump ambassador

On the verge of leaving office, Janet Mills becomes an anti-Trump ambassador

Gov. Janet Mills spoke of a “brand new day” when she was inaugurated in 2019 as Maine’s first female governor. She did not mention first-term President Donald Trump, nor could she have known how he would overlap again with her in office and make Maine an object of his ire. Yet as the governor nears her final year in office, one of her key roles is pushing back against the president and his efforts to yank the state’s federal funding since Trump …