Voters in Maine on Tuesday approved a ballot initiative to expand the state’s Medicaid program under the Affordable Care Act, the first U.S. state to do so via ballot. But it's too soon to celebrate just yet. Maine's Republican governor Paul LePage announced today that his administration would not expand Medicaid, until the state finds a way to fund the expansion.

"My administration will not implement Medicaid expansion until it has been fully funded by the Legislature at the levels [the Department of Health and Human Services] has calculated, and I will not support increasing taxes on Maine families, raiding the rainy day fund or reducing services to our elderly or disabled,” Governor LePage said in a statement.

Reuters reports that while Republicans have been busy trying to repeal and replace the ACA, Maine’s own moderate Republican senator Susan Collins helped to thwart their efforts, voting with John McCain, R-AZ and Lisa Murkowski, R-AK against an effort that was a must-pass for Republicans if they were to be able to kill the ACA by September 30. That won some withering comments from the White House for all three senators.