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August 05, 2025

Congressman Auchincloss Introduces Resolution Honoring Community Health Centers

  Congressman Jake Auchincloss (MA-04), a member of the Congressional Community Health Center Caucus, joined Reps.  David Valadao (CA-22), Troy Balderson (OH-12),  and Danny Davis (IL-07), to introduce a bipartisan resolution designating the week of August 3, 2025 as National Health Center Week. This resolution recognizes the important partnership between health centers and the communities they serve. "Community health centers treat one in ten Americans while spending only 1% of U.S. health dol…  Continue Reading

July 30, 2025

Congressman Auchincloss: New CBO Analysis Shows Trump Cuts to R&D Programs Will Harm the U.S. Economy

As the Trump Administration continues to attack federal research and development (R&D) investments, new analysis from the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) confirms that these investments spur economic growth and reduce the long-term cost of innovation. This analysis, requested by Congressman Jake Auchincloss (MA-04) and House Budget Committee Ranking Member Brendan F. Boyle (PA-02), demonstrates that increasing federal investment in nondefense R&D over the next 10 years wou…  Continue Reading

June 24, 2025

Congressman Auchincloss questions Kennedy on the corruption of Trump Administration healthcare officials

— Today, Congressman Jake Auchincloss (D-MA) questioned Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. about conflicts of interest stemming from the Trump Administration’s use of special government employees who still run and own their own health care companies. Earlier this month, Auchincloss sent letters calling on the boards of health companies True Medicine (TrueMed) and Main Street Health to provide information about conflicts of interest regarding their founders’ roles as specia…  Continue Reading

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August 11, 2025

Meet the Democrat Taking on RFK Jr.

Representative Jake Auchincloss’ interest in science and health runs in the family. His father was a top official at the National Institutes of Health and served as acting director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases after Anthony Fauci left government. Auchincloss’ mother used to lead one of the nation’s premier cancer centers. That pedigree helped position him as one of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s fiercest Democratic critics in Congress…  Continue Reading

August 08, 2025

Massachusetts leaders break ground on new Sturdy Hospital facility

ATTLEBORO, Mass. (WPRI) — Massachusetts leaders broke ground Friday on a new emergency department for Sturdy Memorial Hospital. The expanded center will have 50 private emergency department rooms, a 12-bed behavioral health unit for patients experiencing mental health crises, two trauma bays, CT scanning and other imaging services. “That’s what makes today so exciting,” said U.S. Sen. Ed Markey, who secured $2.85 million from the federal government for the project. “Everyone is going to receiv…  Continue Reading

July 17, 2025

One big disaster for Massachusetts health care

The “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” will be one big disaster for Massachusetts’ health care system and those who rely on it. How big? Approximately 326,000 Massachusetts residents — almost 5 percent of the entire state population — are expected to lose insurance coverage under the bill, according to the Congressional Budget Office. Massachusetts will lose an estimated $1.97 billion in Medicaid funding in 2029 (once provisions are fully phased in), according to The Commonwealth Fund. State official…  Continue Reading