Concord Action Executive Director Carolyn Bourdeaux today released the following statement in response to fiscal issues being ignored in Maine’s first U.S. Senate debate on Tuesday evening:
“The U.S. Senator that Mainers elect in less than a month will have to deal with a likely fiscal crisis caused by our ever-growing $40 trillion national debt, rising interest rates and looming across-the-board Social Security cuts triggered by its insolvency in 2032. It’s extremely disappointing that these vital issues weren’t even mentioned during the first Senate debate on Tuesday. Hopefully somebody will ask the candidates about them in Thursday’s debate. Maine’s voters deserve to know how their next U.S. Senator will address these serious challenges.”
EDITORS NOTE: Concord Action has asked all U.S. Senate candidates nationwide to take its Fiscal Leadership Challenge, answering three questions about where they stand on Social Security’s looming insolvency, establishing a bipartisan fiscal commission to reduce the deficit and “No Budget, No Pay” legislation to encourage Congress to pass the budget on time.. Unfortunately, neither U.S. Sen. Susan Collins nor former state Sen. Troy Jackson has agreed to answer Concord’s questions.
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