"Devoting this enormous sum to the Pentagon at a time when the greatest challenges to our security—from pandemics to climate change—are not military in nature is both misguided and counterproductive," said one critic.

"Their investments in the fossil fuel industry—an industry whose actions place the health and future of students and the entire planet at risk—amount to nothing less than complicity in the climate crisis."

"Increasing deaths for six weeks in a row is not the situation we should be in right now," said WHO epidemiologist Dr. Maria Van Kerkhove.

"Even Americans who don't carry student debt themselves are sympathetic and are supportive of loan forgiveness."

"Between blocking healthcare access for tens of thousands, gutting our state's education and public health systems, and refusing to adequately address the opioid epidemic or rising property taxes, LePage's tenure was a disaster for Maine people," said the chair of the state's Democratic Party.

"Our country's system of capital punishment is broken," the group said in a new joint statement.