Dear Editor:

Thank you, Senator Collins, for supporting Donald Trump’s Middle East escapade; since 2015, your votes have put the U.S. on the path to war with Iran. We are confident that, after the war crimes, global economic disruptions, and skyrocketing domestic commodity prices, “bombing our little hearts out” will yield benefits to America, the likes of which we have never seen.

Thank you for confirming right wing ideologues Samuel Alito and Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court, and voting for all 191 of Trump’s judicial nominees.

Thank you for supporting 22 of 24 Trump 1.0 cabinet nominees, voting with the president 94% of the time, and voting with Majority Leader Mitch McConnell 90% of the time.

Thank you for supporting the 2017 Tax Cuts bill, though they have increased US deficits and the national debt.

Thank you for voting to confirm all but one of the Trump 2.0 cabinet nominees. Your support for luminaries such as Robert F. Kennedy Jr, Pam Bondi, Linda McMahon, Tulsi Gabbard, Kristi Noem, Markwayne Mullin, Howard Lutnick, Lee Zeldin and Russell Vogt is deeply appreciated.

Despite your opposition to the ‘Big, Beautiful Bill,’ thank you for voting to move it out of committee and onto the Senate floor, where its passage was guaranteed by J.D. Vance’s tie-breaking vote.

Thanks for writing the bill to increase ICE funding.

Thank you for supporting the largest Medicaid cuts in history, despite the facts that over 400,000 Mainers could lose their health care, and rural hospitals are being forced to close.

Very special thanks for your recent votes to increase health care costs in Maine. According to News Center Maine, “more than 60,000 Mainers … are seeing their health care costs rise drastically” after Trump eliminated health care tax credits. The average premium increase for Mainers is $886.

And, finally, thank you for supporting the SAVE America Act, Donald Trump’s signature voter suppression decree. If it passes, half of all American citizens registering to vote will be disenfranchised because they can’t access their birth certificate or don’t have a passport.

You entered the Senate 10 years before the iPhone was invented. Time to retire.

Bill Hammond

Boothbay