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President Donald Trump targeted Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, in a Thursday night Truth Social post, urging Republicans to vote in the opposite of the way that she does.
“Republicans, when in doubt, vote the exact opposite of Senator Susan Collins. Generally speaking, you can’t go wrong. Thank you for your attention to this matter and, MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!” the president declared in the post.
Fox News Digital reached out to Collins’ office early on Friday morning to request a comment from the senator.
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Chair Susan Collins, R-Maine, prepares for the Senate Appropriations Committee hearing titled “A Review of the President’s Special Message of June 3, 2025,” in Dirksen building on Wednesday, June 25, 2025. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)
Last month Collins voted against passage of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act and against passage of a rescissions measure, both of which Trump ultimately signed.
Earlier this year she voted against confirming Pete Hegseth to serve as secretary of defense and against confirming Kash Patel to serve as FBI director.
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In February 2021, she voted to convict Trump after the House impeached him in the wake of the Jan. 6, 2021 Capitol riot, but that Senate vote, which occurred after Trump had already departed from office, did not reach the threshold necessary for conviction.
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Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, arrives to introduce Joshua D. Dunlap, nominee to be U.S. circuit judge for the First Circuit, during a Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing for judicial nominees in Dirksen building on Wednesday, July 30, 2025. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)
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Collins has served in the Senate since 1997.
