Sen. Collins is 3rd-highest Congressional recipient of Palantir political donations

Nurses and constituents will hold a press conference at the district office of Senator Susan Collins to demand she stop taking future donations from Palantir Technologies, the tech company powering ICE surveillance. According to Purge Palantir’s “Palantir Payroll” tracker, Senator Collins has received more than $105,000 in political donations from Palantir executives, making her one of the top three recipients in Congress.

Community members will urge Sen. Collins to join the growing list of Congressional members who are publicly rejecting Palantir’s campaign contributions – including U.S. representatives Raja Krishnamoorthi, Ro Khanna, Jason Crow, Pat Ryan and U.S. Senator John Hickenlooper – over the company’s close cooperation with ICE and federal immigration enforcement. 

They will call on the Maine Senator to donate the $105,000 in donations she has received from Palantir to immigrant rights and community organizations and commit to protecting Mainers from surveillance systems that fuel deportation, detention, and human rights abuses.

Who: RNs with Maine State Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing Committee (MSNA/NNOC), an affiliate of National Nurses United (NNU), Maine People's Action, community members, immigrant families, and allied organizations.
What: PALANTIR TRACKS, ICE ATTACKS – press conference and community action  
When: Thursday, March 12 at 1:30 pm ET
Where: Senator Susan Collins’ district office | 1 Plaza, Portland, Maine 

The federal government has cut more than a trillion dollars in funding for Medicaid and Affordable Care Act subsidies – threatening health coverage for tens of thousands of Mainers and risking hospital closures and service cuts across the state – while awarding billions of dollars in contracts to Palantir. Founded by Peter Thiel and led by Alex Karp, both billionaires, Palantir’s data mining and surveillance tools centralizes and organizes

massive amounts of data collected by the federal government, including Medicaid data, to enable ICE to target, stalk, detain, and deport immigrants. 

From 2009 to 2025, Palantir received $2.5 billion in federal government funding, but this number has grown tremendously in just the past year. Last July, the Department of Defense announced a $10 billion agreement with Palantir to use its technology to share data across federal agencies, enabling unprecedented surveillance power. This followed a $30 million contract awarded to Palantir by the Department of Homeland Security to build an AI-powered system that would identify immigrants for deportation. In Feb. 2026, the Department of Homeland Security and Palantir signed a $1 billion contract. 

Palantir’s technology also extends to the health care industry. In Portland, Maine, MaineHealth has entered into a contract with Palantir. MaineHealth has refused to provide further information on its contract with Palantir. 

Maine State Nurses Association is part of National Nurses Organizing Committee, representing 4,000 nurses and other caregivers from Portland to Fort Kent. NNOC is an affiliate of National Nurses United, the largest and fastest-growing labor union of registered nurses in the United States with more than 225,000 members nationwide.