PORTLAND, Maine — Maine Governor Janet Mills, who’s running to be the state’s Democratic U.S. Senate nominee next year, is at odds with her prospective opponent, Republican Senator Susan Collins, and Independent Senator Angus King, over the deal to reopen the federal government after a record-long, 43-day shutdown.

“I think it's a lousy deal,” Mills said in a sit-down interview with NEWS CENTER Maine on Wednesday. She particularly dislikes that the deal only promises a vote next month to extend subsidies for Affordable Care Act insurance plans.

“It wouldn't take much of anything to extend those tax credits, even just for a year," Mills said. "They can keep talking about it, but a commitment to talk about it in December, to put it on the calendar? It's just vacuous.”

Without those subsid

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