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Democrats hope to confront Trump with people impacted by his actions during his speech before Congress
WASHINGTON — When President Trump addresses Congress on Tuesday, a key group of people impacted by his deep cuts to the federal government will be watching from the audience. Former federal workers and beneficiaries of government programs will be invited by Democrats, continuing a longstanding, bipartisan tradition of bringing guests to presidential speeches before Congress to highlight a message. This year, for Democrats, that message is about Americans they say are being hurt or could be … Continue Reading
March 03, 2025
Democrats Say the Wind Development Ban Won’t Affect Projects in Progress. The Reality is Less Clear.
A month after President Donald Trump signed an executive order to restrict — and in some cases, entirely halt — wind energy development in the United States, renewable energy advocates are still reeling. In addition to a moratorium on any new offshore wind leases, the executive order mandates a review of existing wind leases to decide the “ecological, economic, and environmental necessity of terminating or amending” them. The Department of the Interior and the Bureau of Ocean Energy … Continue Reading
March 03, 2025
Attleboro area congressman to bring former top USAID official to Trump address
U.S. Rep. Jake Auchincloss is bringing a former top official with the U.S. Agency for International Development to President Trump’s State of the Union address Tuesday night. Dr. Atul Gawande, former assistant administrator for global health at USAID, which is being gutted by the Trump administration, will be the Massachusetts congressman’s special guest at the president’s speech to a joint session of Congress, Auchincloss announced Monday. The Democrat represents the 4th District in … Continue Reading
March 02, 2025
Musk and Trump aren’t just decimating the federal workforce. They’re denigrating it.
At a recent House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing, Republican Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia — perhaps best known for heckling former president Joe Biden during his State of the Union addresses and blaming Democrats for causing hurricanes — ripped into this nation’s beleaguered federal workforce. “Those are not real jobs producing federal revenue, by the way. They’re consuming taxpayer dollars,” said Greene, who, despite not knowing what she was talking … Continue Reading
March 01, 2025
Here’s what Mass. Democrats say they’re doing to counter Trump’s ‘all-out assault’
Massachusetts Democrats are working with other party members in Congress to combat the stream of executive orders from President Donald Trump. “I think he has launched an all-out assault, not only against the middle class and against the most vulnerable in our country, but he has launched an all-out assault against our democracy,” Rep. Jim McGovern, who represents Massachusetts’s 2nd Congressional District, told Boston.com. Though Democrats are in the minority in both the Senate and the … Continue Reading
February 28, 2025
POLITICO Pro Q&A: Rep. Jake Auchincloss, the new E&C Dem fighting back against RFK Jr.
Rep. Jake Auchincloss, a southern Massachusetts Democrat, is using his new seat on the Energy and Commerce Committee to advocate for overhauls of health care policies and provide a check on what he sees as the Trump administration's anti-vaccine agenda. The 37-year-old Harvard graduate and former Marine in his third term in office is among a group of Democrats seated to thepowerful panel this year and injecting youth into the ranks, joining fellow millennial Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez … Continue Reading
February 26, 2025
Q&A: Congressman Jake Auchincloss on Democrats’ constitutional fight, the Massachusetts housing crisis, and trans rights
As Democrats in Congress look to assert themselves during a chaotic, dramatic presidential transition, Brookline.News sat down with Congressman Jake Auchincloss in his Newton office to discuss the issues facing his constituents and the nation. Auchincloss, who represents Brookline and 34 other cities and towns in the Massachusetts Fourth District, answered questions from our team and some of our readers on subjects including what he called a “constitutional fight” with the executive branch, … Continue Reading
February 24, 2025
March for Ukraine draws hundreds in Boston as war moves into fourth year
It’s been three years since Russian President Vladimir Putin launched an unprovoked war against Ukraine, and on Sunday hundreds of supporters rallied and marched in Boston to bring attention to the ongoing conflict. After gathering at the Boston Public Library around 1 p.m., the protesters made their way down Commonwealth Ave and through the Public Garden to the Boston Common. They paused at the Soldiers and Sailors memorial, chanting phrases like “Russia is a terrorist state,” “peace is easy … Continue Reading
February 21, 2025
The National Institute of Standards and Technology Braces for Mass Firings
Sweeping layoffs architected by the Trump administration and the so-called Department of Government Efficiency may be coming as soon as this week at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), a nonregulatory agency responsible for establishing benchmarks that ensure everything from beauty products to quantum computers are safe and reliable. According to several current and former employees at NIST, the agency has been bracing for cuts since President Donald Trump took office … Continue Reading
February 20, 2025
Auchincloss: Democrats have to become the party of 'big ideas'
ATTLEBORO — Democrats have to become the party of “big ideas” if they are going to counter President Donald Trump’s efforts to remake the federal government, the area’s congressman says. “We have to play defense” against the president’s overreach, U.S. Rep. Jake Auchincloss said Wednesday, “but also have to go on offense,” making the case to voters that the new administration’s policies are going to come at a cost to their household income. “That message is a winning message if we stay … Continue Reading
February 20, 2025
'Upset, hurt, angry, betrayed': How local Ukrainians feel about the Trump administration's talks with Russia
Mariia Solovii applied to dozens of colleges in the United States after Russia invaded her home country of Ukraine in 2022. She said she considered the U.S. “the center of global freedom, democracy, and I think most importantly, a nation that sort of never abandons its allies.” But now, as President Trump’s administration enters talks with Russian counterparts about ending the war in Ukraine — without inviting Ukrainian leaders — she said her opinion has changed. “So far, the way this looks … Continue Reading
February 19, 2025
Social Security head resigns following DOGE data request: Reports
(NewsNation) — The acting commissioner of the Social Security Administration has stepped down from her role after the Department of Government Efficiency requested access to private information, according to reports. Acting Commissioner Michelle King left the agency after more than 30 years, allegedly refusing to give DOGE staffers sensitive information, according to the Associated Press. Former Social Security Administration Commissioner Martin O’Malley told NewsNation, “I think she should … Continue Reading
February 17, 2025
Rep. Jake Auchincloss, State Rep. Greg Schwartz, and Dr. Ashish Jah hit back at NIH funding cuts
On Friday, February 7, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced that it would allow only 15% of “indirect costs” associated with the wide range of scientific research projects it funds at universities, medical facilities, and other science institutions. The change in funding, originally set to begin on Monday, February 10, would have created chaos at these institutions, but Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Campbell worked with twenty-one other Attorneys General to file a … Continue Reading
February 10, 2025
‘A $2 billion chainsaw to the Massachusetts economy’: Auchincloss fires back at NIH funding cuts
February 06, 2025
Local Palestinians, Mass. lawmakers, react to Trump's Gaza proposal
Following President Donald Trump's proposal on Tuesday to relocate Palestinians out of the Gaza Strip to allow the U.S. to take control and rebuild the region, both allies and adversaries of the U.S. have announced their objections. During a press conference on Wednesday, the White House walked back on Trump's statements. Palestinians in Massachusetts who visit Andala Coffee House in Cambridge were also concerned by Trump's statements. Trump has suggested that the U.S. redevelop Gaza and … Continue Reading
February 04, 2025
Trump’s idea to clear Gaza is a real estate grab: Rep. Auchincloss
President Trump’s suggestion more than 2 million Palestinians be relocated permanently from Gaza is an attempt to clear the property for future development and enrich his family, a Democratic congressman says. “We have to look at Trump’s motives,” U.S. Rep. Jake Auchincloss, D-Mass., told NewsNation’s Elizabeth Vargas. “As always, when Trump proposes a policy item, there is a nepotistic, self-serving connection.” Auchincloss said Trump and son-in-law Jared Kushner and “probably” the royal … Continue Reading
January 24, 2025
Democratic lawmakers ask regulators to look into Donald and Melania Trump meme coins
Two senior congressional Democrats have asked multiple regulators to look into the propriety of meme coins issued by President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump. Sen. Elizabeth Warren and Rep. Jake Auchincloss, both of Massachusetts, raised issues regarding the first couple using their respective offices for enrichment, along with the potential for “rug-pull” scams similar to what has happened with the other such tokens, as well as possible conflicts of interest. “We write with deep … Continue Reading
January 16, 2025
TikTok’s forced sale is an opportunity to reclaim digital town square
The oral arguments before the Supreme Court on TikTok made clear that the social media app is skating on thin legal ice. Last term, I cosponsored the bipartisan bill it is challenging. This term, Congress must follow through on forcing TikTok’s divestment from its Chinese parent company, ByteDance. That will require muscling past President-elect Donald Trump’s inner circle, who want to put his China policy up for sale. Then lawmakers must stand up to the entire Big Tech lobby by establishing a … Continue Reading
January 15, 2025
Why Trump's target should be China, not Panama
Donald Trump is threatening to invade Panama. Chinese influence over the Canal Zone, he argues, undermines U.S. security. Ten years ago, I commanded a 60-man counter-narcotics training mission for the Marines to the Panama Canal Zone. Over the last two years, I served on the Select Committee on China in Congress. I introduced the U.S. Supply Chain Security Review Act, which is now the law of the land. The president-elect is right to support the Monroe Doctrine. This pillar of American … Continue Reading
January 14, 2025
US oil group under pressure to exit Russia after Biden administration widens sanctions
One of the US’s biggest energy groups has come under new pressure to halt its operations in Russia following the imposition of sweeping new sanctions on the country’s oil sector by the Biden administration. Two US Congress members told the Financial Times that oilfield services company SLB, better known as Schlumberger, should get out of Russia or risk breaching US sanctions. Lloyd Doggett and Jake Auchincloss issued the warning following an order published by the Biden administration on … Continue Reading