{"id":19198,"date":"2026-05-26T09:16:40","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T09:16:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/2026\/05\/26\/full-psychiatric-hospitals-challenge-md-maryland-daily-record\/"},"modified":"2026-05-26T09:16:40","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T09:16:40","slug":"full-psychiatric-hospitals-challenge-md-maryland-daily-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/2026\/05\/26\/full-psychiatric-hospitals-challenge-md-maryland-daily-record\/","title":{"rendered":"Full psychiatric hospitals challenge MD &#8211; Maryland Daily Record"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Upcoming Event<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thedailyrecord.com\/event\/mental-health\/\">Mental Health<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thedailyrecord.com\/author\/stephaniekalinametzger\/\"><b>Stephanie Kalina-Metzger<\/b><\/a><span>\/\/<\/span>May 26, 2026<span>\/\/<\/span><b><span class=\"bsf-rt-reading-time\"><span class=\"bsf-rt-display-label\" prefix=\"\"> \t\t<\/span> <span class=\"bsf-rt-display-time\" reading_time=\"4\"><\/span>  \t\t<span class=\"bsf-rt-display-postfix\" postfix=\"Minute Read\"><\/span><\/span><\/b><br \/>Full psychiatric hospitals challenge MD<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thedailyrecord.com\/author\/stephaniekalinametzger\/\"><b>Stephanie Kalina-Metzger<\/b><\/a><span>\/\/<\/span>May 26, 2026<span>\/\/<\/span><b><span class=\"bsf-rt-reading-time\"><span class=\"bsf-rt-display-label\" prefix=\"\"> \t\t<\/span> <span class=\"bsf-rt-display-time\" reading_time=\"4\"><\/span>  \t\t<span class=\"bsf-rt-display-postfix\" postfix=\"Minute Read\"><\/span><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Maryland&#8217;s state psychiatric system is under mounting pressure as hospitals statewide continue operating at near full capacity.<\/span> <br \/><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to Amanda Hils, a spokesperson for the <a href=\"https:\/\/thedailyrecord.com\/tag\/maryland-department-of-health\/\" class=\"st_tag internal_tag\" rel=\"tag\" title=\"Posts tagged with maryland department of health\">Maryland Department of Health<\/a>, the state&#8217;s five adult psychiatric forensic hospitals operate at an average capacity of 95%, above the national average.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"article_dfp_ads\"><!-- in_content_300x250_a -->\t\t<\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-in_content_300x250_a\" \t\t     class=\"div-gpt-ad-in_content_300x250_a in_content_300x250_a dfp_ad_pos\"> \t\t\t<script type='text\/javascript'>\n\t\t\t\tgoogletag.cmd.push(function () {\n\t\t\t\t\tgoogletag.display('div-gpt-ad-in_content_300x250_a');\n\t\t\t\t\tgoogletag.pubads().collapseEmptyDivs(true);\n\t\t\t\t});\n\t\t\t<\/script> \t\t<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As more people struggle with <a href=\"https:\/\/thedailyrecord.com\/tag\/mental-health\/\" class=\"st_tag internal_tag\" rel=\"tag\" title=\"Posts tagged with mental health\">mental health<\/a> issues, experts say the demand for services continues to outpace available resources.<\/span> <\/p>\n<h2>Filling a court-ordered void<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Maryland&#8217;s five state psychiatric hospitals primarily serve individuals with mental illnesses who are involved in the criminal justice system and are deemed dangerous, Hils said.\u00a0<\/span> <br \/><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThe majority of admissions ordered to these hospitals wait in detention centers until a bed becomes available,\u201d she said.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"article_dfp_ads\"><!-- in_content_300x250_b -->\t\t<\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-in_content_300x250_b\" \t\t     class=\"div-gpt-ad-in_content_300x250_b in_content_300x250_b dfp_ad_pos\"> \t\t\t<script type='text\/javascript'>\n\t\t\t\tgoogletag.cmd.push(function () {\n\t\t\t\t\tgoogletag.display('div-gpt-ad-in_content_300x250_b');\n\t\t\t\t\tgoogletag.pubads().collapseEmptyDivs(true);\n\t\t\t\t});\n\t\t\t<\/script> \t\t<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<figure id=\"attachment_740624\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-740624\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-740624\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg'%20viewBox='0%200%20300%20159'%3E%3C\/svg%3E\" alt=\"CNS-PSYCHIATRIC-BEDS2.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"159\" data-lazy-srcset=\"https:\/\/thedailyrecord.com\/files\/2026\/04\/CNS-PSYCHIATRIC-BEDS2.jpg-300x159.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thedailyrecord.com\/files\/2026\/04\/CNS-PSYCHIATRIC-BEDS2.jpg-304x162.jpg 304w, https:\/\/thedailyrecord.com\/files\/2026\/04\/CNS-PSYCHIATRIC-BEDS2.jpg-200x106.jpg 200w, https:\/\/thedailyrecord.com\/files\/2026\/04\/CNS-PSYCHIATRIC-BEDS2.jpg-408x216.jpg 408w, https:\/\/thedailyrecord.com\/files\/2026\/04\/CNS-PSYCHIATRIC-BEDS2.jpg-236x125.jpg 236w, https:\/\/thedailyrecord.com\/files\/2026\/04\/CNS-PSYCHIATRIC-BEDS2.jpg-283x150.jpg 283w, https:\/\/thedailyrecord.com\/files\/2026\/04\/CNS-PSYCHIATRIC-BEDS2.jpg-120x64.jpg 120w, https:\/\/thedailyrecord.com\/files\/2026\/04\/CNS-PSYCHIATRIC-BEDS2.jpg-50x26.jpg 50w, https:\/\/thedailyrecord.com\/files\/2026\/04\/CNS-PSYCHIATRIC-BEDS2.jpg.jpg 519w\" data-lazy-sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/thedailyrecord.com\/files\/2026\/04\/CNS-PSYCHIATRIC-BEDS2.jpg-300x159.jpg\" \/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-740624\" src=\"https:\/\/thedailyrecord.com\/files\/2026\/04\/CNS-PSYCHIATRIC-BEDS2.jpg-300x159.jpg\" alt=\"CNS-PSYCHIATRIC-BEDS2.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"159\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thedailyrecord.com\/files\/2026\/04\/CNS-PSYCHIATRIC-BEDS2.jpg-300x159.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thedailyrecord.com\/files\/2026\/04\/CNS-PSYCHIATRIC-BEDS2.jpg-304x162.jpg 304w, https:\/\/thedailyrecord.com\/files\/2026\/04\/CNS-PSYCHIATRIC-BEDS2.jpg-200x106.jpg 200w, https:\/\/thedailyrecord.com\/files\/2026\/04\/CNS-PSYCHIATRIC-BEDS2.jpg-408x216.jpg 408w, https:\/\/thedailyrecord.com\/files\/2026\/04\/CNS-PSYCHIATRIC-BEDS2.jpg-236x125.jpg 236w, https:\/\/thedailyrecord.com\/files\/2026\/04\/CNS-PSYCHIATRIC-BEDS2.jpg-283x150.jpg 283w, https:\/\/thedailyrecord.com\/files\/2026\/04\/CNS-PSYCHIATRIC-BEDS2.jpg-120x64.jpg 120w, https:\/\/thedailyrecord.com\/files\/2026\/04\/CNS-PSYCHIATRIC-BEDS2.jpg-50x26.jpg 50w, https:\/\/thedailyrecord.com\/files\/2026\/04\/CNS-PSYCHIATRIC-BEDS2.jpg.jpg 519w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/noscript><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-740624\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">File photo outside Clifton T. Perkins Hospital Center in Jessup. (Vickie Connor\/Capital News Service)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Wait times vary depending on the facility and patient needs. According to Hils, court-ordered patients awaiting admission to Clifton T. Perkins Hospital Center for competency restoration and treatment can wait as long as nine or 10 months.<\/span> <br \/><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Meanwhile, patients awaiting placement at Maryland&#8217;s four minimum-security psychiatric hospitals \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/thedailyrecord.com\/tag\/eastern-shore\/\" class=\"st_tag internal_tag\" rel=\"tag\" title=\"Posts tagged with Eastern Shore\">Eastern Shore<\/a> Hospital Center, Thomas B. Finan Hospital Center, Spring Grove Hospital Center and Springfield Hospital Center \u2014 typically face waits of two to four months, Hils said.<\/span> <br \/><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The backlog adds pressure throughout the system.<\/span> <br \/><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Compounding the issue, Maryland Criminal Procedure \u00a73-106 requires MDH to transfer an individual into an appropriate state hospital for competency restoration services within 10 business days of when a judge finds the individual incompetent to stand trial, according to Nick Cavey, a spokesperson with the Maryland Judiciary.<\/span> <\/p>\n<h2>Early treatment<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Shannon Hall, executive director of the Community Behavioral Health Association of Maryland, said stronger early intervention services could help.<\/span> <\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_740689\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-740689\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-740689\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg'%20viewBox='0%200%20200%20300'%3E%3C\/svg%3E\" alt=\"shannonhall\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" data-lazy-srcset=\"https:\/\/thedailyrecord.com\/files\/2026\/04\/shannonhall-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/thedailyrecord.com\/files\/2026\/04\/shannonhall-684x1024.jpg 684w, https:\/\/thedailyrecord.com\/files\/2026\/04\/shannonhall-768x1150.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thedailyrecord.com\/files\/2026\/04\/shannonhall-1025x1536.jpg 1025w, https:\/\/thedailyrecord.com\/files\/2026\/04\/shannonhall-1367x2048.jpg 1367w, https:\/\/thedailyrecord.com\/files\/2026\/04\/shannonhall-107x160.jpg 107w, https:\/\/thedailyrecord.com\/files\/2026\/04\/shannonhall-177x265.jpg 177w, https:\/\/thedailyrecord.com\/files\/2026\/04\/shannonhall-83x125.jpg 83w, https:\/\/thedailyrecord.com\/files\/2026\/04\/shannonhall-95x142.jpg 95w, https:\/\/thedailyrecord.com\/files\/2026\/04\/shannonhall-100x150.jpg 100w, https:\/\/thedailyrecord.com\/files\/2026\/04\/shannonhall-73x110.jpg 73w, https:\/\/thedailyrecord.com\/files\/2026\/04\/shannonhall-33x50.jpg 33w, https:\/\/thedailyrecord.com\/files\/2026\/04\/shannonhall-scaled.jpg 1709w\" data-lazy-sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/thedailyrecord.com\/files\/2026\/04\/shannonhall-200x300.jpg\" \/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-740689\" src=\"https:\/\/thedailyrecord.com\/files\/2026\/04\/shannonhall-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"shannonhall\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thedailyrecord.com\/files\/2026\/04\/shannonhall-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/thedailyrecord.com\/files\/2026\/04\/shannonhall-684x1024.jpg 684w, https:\/\/thedailyrecord.com\/files\/2026\/04\/shannonhall-768x1150.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thedailyrecord.com\/files\/2026\/04\/shannonhall-1025x1536.jpg 1025w, https:\/\/thedailyrecord.com\/files\/2026\/04\/shannonhall-1367x2048.jpg 1367w, https:\/\/thedailyrecord.com\/files\/2026\/04\/shannonhall-107x160.jpg 107w, https:\/\/thedailyrecord.com\/files\/2026\/04\/shannonhall-177x265.jpg 177w, https:\/\/thedailyrecord.com\/files\/2026\/04\/shannonhall-83x125.jpg 83w, https:\/\/thedailyrecord.com\/files\/2026\/04\/shannonhall-95x142.jpg 95w, https:\/\/thedailyrecord.com\/files\/2026\/04\/shannonhall-100x150.jpg 100w, https:\/\/thedailyrecord.com\/files\/2026\/04\/shannonhall-73x110.jpg 73w, https:\/\/thedailyrecord.com\/files\/2026\/04\/shannonhall-33x50.jpg 33w, https:\/\/thedailyrecord.com\/files\/2026\/04\/shannonhall-scaled.jpg 1709w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/noscript><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-740689\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">File photo of Shannon Hall, executive director of the Community Behavioral Health Association of Maryland. (Courtesy of the Community Behavioral Health Association of Maryland)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cTo take pressure off the system, we need to strengthen reimbursement rates for Medicaid intensive in-home services,\u201d Hall said. She pointed out that Medicaid estimates that approximately 1,800 individuals could benefit from the services, but only 34 are using it.<\/span> <br \/><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hall said low reimbursement rates discourage providers from offering the highly specialized and expensive service. Foster children, in particular, need additional support, she added, including more highly trained foster parents and greater flexibility in state licensing rules that can create barriers to care.<\/span> <br \/><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Maryland should expand same-day access to behavioral health services, she continued.<\/span> <br \/><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cMaryland has the many pieces needed but would benefit from a stronger, unified vision to prioritize and scale solutions across the state,\u201d she said.<\/span> <\/p>\n<h2>Building community infrastructure<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Harsh Trivedi, president and CEO of <a href=\"https:\/\/thedailyrecord.com\/tag\/sheppard-pratt\/\" class=\"st_tag internal_tag\" rel=\"tag\" title=\"Posts tagged with Sheppard Pratt\">Sheppard Pratt<\/a>, one of the nation&#8217;s oldest and largest private nonprofit mental health systems, said Maryland also needs a dedicated children&#8217;s psychiatric hospital and stronger youth treatment infrastructure overall, including residential treatment centers and group homes.<\/span> <br \/><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cWe&#8217;ve seen the numbers of youth residential treatment centers dwindle to four in the state,\u201d Trivedi said.\u00a0<\/span> <br \/><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Lawmakers passed legislation aimed at ending the practice of \u201choteling\u201d of youth and improving voluntary placement agreements after a 16-year-old foster girl was found dead in a Baltimore hotel in September. But Trivedi said additional funding is still needed to support treatment centers and group homes.<\/span> <br \/><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Trivedi also called for consistently funded school-based mental health services and outpatient clinics to ensure communities have adequate levels of care.<\/span> <\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_740688\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-740688\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-740688\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg'%20viewBox='0%200%20300%20240'%3E%3C\/svg%3E\" alt=\"harshtrivedisheppardpratt\" width=\"300\" height=\"240\" data-lazy-srcset=\"https:\/\/thedailyrecord.com\/files\/2026\/04\/harshtrivedisheppardpratt-300x240.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thedailyrecord.com\/files\/2026\/04\/harshtrivedisheppardpratt-200x160.jpg 200w, https:\/\/thedailyrecord.com\/files\/2026\/04\/harshtrivedisheppardpratt-331x265.jpg 331w, https:\/\/thedailyrecord.com\/files\/2026\/04\/harshtrivedisheppardpratt-156x125.jpg 156w, https:\/\/thedailyrecord.com\/files\/2026\/04\/harshtrivedisheppardpratt-178x142.jpg 178w, https:\/\/thedailyrecord.com\/files\/2026\/04\/harshtrivedisheppardpratt-188x150.jpg 188w, https:\/\/thedailyrecord.com\/files\/2026\/04\/harshtrivedisheppardpratt-120x96.jpg 120w, https:\/\/thedailyrecord.com\/files\/2026\/04\/harshtrivedisheppardpratt-50x40.jpg 50w, https:\/\/thedailyrecord.com\/files\/2026\/04\/harshtrivedisheppardpratt.jpg 474w\" data-lazy-sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/thedailyrecord.com\/files\/2026\/04\/harshtrivedisheppardpratt-300x240.jpg\" \/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-740688\" src=\"https:\/\/thedailyrecord.com\/files\/2026\/04\/harshtrivedisheppardpratt-300x240.jpg\" alt=\"harshtrivedisheppardpratt\" width=\"300\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thedailyrecord.com\/files\/2026\/04\/harshtrivedisheppardpratt-300x240.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thedailyrecord.com\/files\/2026\/04\/harshtrivedisheppardpratt-200x160.jpg 200w, https:\/\/thedailyrecord.com\/files\/2026\/04\/harshtrivedisheppardpratt-331x265.jpg 331w, https:\/\/thedailyrecord.com\/files\/2026\/04\/harshtrivedisheppardpratt-156x125.jpg 156w, https:\/\/thedailyrecord.com\/files\/2026\/04\/harshtrivedisheppardpratt-178x142.jpg 178w, https:\/\/thedailyrecord.com\/files\/2026\/04\/harshtrivedisheppardpratt-188x150.jpg 188w, https:\/\/thedailyrecord.com\/files\/2026\/04\/harshtrivedisheppardpratt-120x96.jpg 120w, https:\/\/thedailyrecord.com\/files\/2026\/04\/harshtrivedisheppardpratt-50x40.jpg 50w, https:\/\/thedailyrecord.com\/files\/2026\/04\/harshtrivedisheppardpratt.jpg 474w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/noscript><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-740688\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">File photo of Harsh Trivedi, president and CEO of Sheppard Pratt. (Courtesy of Sheppard Pratt)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cAs people wait longer to receive services, we witness strain throughout the public behavioral health system caused by insufficient rate increases, while costs and inflation related to care and services have increased,\u201d Trivedi said. \u201cThe bottleneck causes a destabilization in communities for our most vulnerable and complex patients.\u201d<\/span> <\/p>\n<h2>Efforts underway<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The state health department is working on multiple initiatives aimed at expanding treatment capacity, including plans to add 25 beds at Springfield and 68 beds at Clifton T. Perkins hospital centers.<\/span> <br \/><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The department is also working to prioritize community-based alternatives and housing stability, since a lack of a home address can be a barrier to treatment compliance and appointment attendance. MDH is partnering with the Maryland Department of Housing and Community Development to open 25 beds and fund an additional 50 beds through the Capitation Project in Baltimore City.<\/span> <br \/><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In May 2025, the Maryland Judiciary, in partnership with the Governor&#8217;s Office of Crime Prevention and Policy and MDH&#8217;s Behavioral Health Administration, hosted a statewide summit on behavioral health to bring together representatives from all 24 of Maryland&#8217;s jurisdictions to assess needs and identify strategies across the behavioral health and justice system.<\/span> <br \/><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Following the summit, the judiciary and executive branch established a steering committee to address the priorities identified during the meetings.<\/span> <br \/><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hall said the initiatives underway are encouraging, noting that untreated mental illness often leads to worsening symptoms, repeated crises, high emergency department overuse and social isolation.<\/span> <br \/><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cMany of these interventions cost far more than delivering outpatient mental health or addiction treatment,\u201d she said.<\/span> <\/p>\n<div id=\"ldlresolve-main-content\" ldl-basepg=\"lists\" ldl-host=\"https:\/\/legal.bridgetowermedia.com\" ldl-postid=\"740693\" ldl-title=\"Full psychiatric hospitals challenge MD\" ldl-date=\"2026-05-26 05:00:19\" ldl-resolve><\/div>\n<p><script type=\"rocketlazyloadscript\">if ( typeof LD == \"object\" ) { LD.initPage(); }<\/script><!-- post-single CPT Filter Start --><!-- post-single CPT Filter End    --><br \/>Share this!<br \/>Two Maryland doctors accused of sharing private health information with the intention of benefiting Russia are [\u2026]<br \/><b>May 22, 2026<\/b><br \/>Bluepoint Living, a hospitality company, has agreed to buy an Easton Hospital property as its Eastern Shore bu [\u2026]<br \/><b>May 22, 2026<\/b><br \/>UnitedHealthcare\u2019s requests to increase premiums for tens of thousands of customers midyear are facing pushbac [\u2026]<br \/><b>May 21, 2026<\/b><br \/>The Governor\u2019s Office for Children has launched a website to connect expecting and new parents with helpful st [\u2026]<br \/><b>May 20, 2026<\/b><br \/>The U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear a pharmaceutical industry challenge to a plan to curb Medicare drug pr [\u2026]<br \/><b>May 19, 2026<\/b><br \/>The Mood Center, a ketamine therapy practice based in Annapolis, has expanded after opening a new facility in  [\u2026]<br \/><b>May 15, 2026<\/b><br \/>Sign up for your daily digest of Maryland news.<br \/>                                         Full psychiatric hospitals challenge MD                                    <br \/>26\/5\/2026<br \/>                                         2 MD doctors who beat Russian conspiracy case sue over news release                                    <br \/>22\/5\/2026<br \/>                                         Moore to allow immigration bill to go into effect without signing                                    <br \/>22\/5\/2026<br \/>                                         Cecil County violated man&#8217;s 1st Amendment rights; judge upholds punitive d[&#8230;]                                    <br \/>21\/5\/2026<br \/>                                         26K-plus Marylanders could see insurance hikes under UnitedHealthcare                                    <br \/>21\/5\/2026<br \/> Commentary: Sen. 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