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Putin ‘can smell’ Trump admin’s ‘defeatism’ over stalled Ukraine peace talks: Rep. Auchincloss
Ukrainian officials claim Russia violated an Easter truce multiple times Sunday, despite Russian President Putin suspending military operations in Ukraine over the weekend. Rep. Jake Auchincloss (D-MA) joins Christina Ruffini to discuss the Trump administration’s peace negotiations between the two nations, cuts to Social Security, and … Continue Reading
April 18, 2025
Auchincloss says Medicaid cuts will raise costs for all insurance
U.S. Rep. Jake Auchincloss, D-Newton, held a virtual town hall on Wednesday to discuss a host of issues, from the impact of President Donald Trump’s tariffs to immigration and frozen federal grants. And what he had to say about health insurance may raise alarms. “The bad news is there are going to be Medicaid cuts, I think, ultimately—not a guarantee, but there will be some,” Auchincloss said. “I believe those Medicaid cuts will ultimately raise commercial health insurance rates, because … Continue Reading
April 17, 2025
Auchincloss takes aim at Republicans on economy
FALL RIVER — US Representative Jake Auchincloss on Thursday said Republicans are at once tanking the economy and attempting to undo America’s social safety net. Auchincloss told the Globe in a brief interview that President Trump’s tariffs could tip the country into a recession. “They are attacking the tenants of Americans’ financial freedom right now,” he said by a local Social Security office. “So, at the same time as they are taking a good economy and shoving it over a cliff, they are … Continue Reading
April 17, 2025
Auchincloss shares concerns about potential social security cuts
FALL RIVER, Mass. (WLNE) — Rep. Jake Auchincloss was in Fall River Thursday and said he’s concerned about potential cuts to Social Security and the potential shuttering of the building where city residents go to get their benefits. Auchincloss said, as he saw it, Republicans are engaged in a three-part attack on the Social Security Administration. “First they tried to degrade the quality and the service of social security,” he said. “They’re doing that by cutting off phone service for … Continue Reading
April 17, 2025
Auchincloss highlights importance of Fall River's Social Security office
FALL RIVER — In a brief yet impassioned speech outside of the Social Security building at 400 N. Main St., Congressman Jake Auchincloss took aim at Trump administration cuts to Social Security Administration . President Donald J. Trump’s initiatives to cut administrative costs by closing a list of “non-core” locations of government buildings now includes the regional office on North Main Street where retirees and people with disabilities receive aid, said Auchincloss. Social Security he said, … Continue Reading
April 15, 2025
Did Harvard just grow the backbone we’ve been waiting for?
That collective sigh of relief you heard around Greater Boston on Monday afternoon? That was all of us exhaling after Harvard finally did the right thing, refusing to comply with demands of the Trump administration that would have threatened the academic freedom of universities everywhere. In other words, Harvard grew a backbone. And not a moment too soon. “The University will not surrender its independence or relinquish its constitutional rights,” president Alan Garber wrote in a message … Continue Reading
April 13, 2025
EXCLUSIVE: From Social MEDIA to Social SECURITY with Rep. Jake Auchincloss
In this fiery and thought-provoking episode of The Dangerous Ones, we sit down with Democratic rising star Congressman Jake Auchincloss for a brutally honest conversation about corruption, chaos, and the creeping authoritarianism of Trump’s second term. From the crumbling of America’s global standing to the unraveling of vital institutions like Social Security, the VA, and the FDA, Auchincloss brings insider knowledge, historical clarity, and a call to arms for Democrats to reclaim their … Continue Reading
April 13, 2025
Rep. Jake Auchincloss on the alternative to Trump’s trade wars, measles outbreaks, ICE deportations.
Massachusetts Representative Jake Auchincloss joins Anthony Davis to discuss how the U.S. navigates through Trump’s trade wars, the Texas measles outbreak, the SAVE Act, ICE deportations - only on The Weekend … Continue Reading
April 11, 2025
Massachusetts congressman rejects ‘painful’ Trump tariffs
After a tumultuous week on Wall Street following President Donald Trump’s announcement of the highest import taxes in a century, Democratic members of Congress called out the Trump administration’s deal-making strategy. Among them is Massachusetts Rep. Jake Auchincloss, whose Massachusetts district extends from Brookline and Newton south to Franklin and Fall River. In an interview with GBH News, Auchincloss called Trump’s tariffs “the largest peacetime tax increase in American history” and … Continue Reading
April 07, 2025
Tell us: Is it time to overhaul Chapter 40B in the quest for affordable housing?
Should Massachusetts overhaul its decades-old affordable housing statute, Chapter 40B? One lawmaker has proposed “nuclear” reforms that could open up more housing, but not without a unilateral decision from Governor Maura Healey. At a Charles River Regional Chamber event last week, Congressman Jake Auchincloss responded to a question on how to increase housing supply and affordability from Chamber CEO Greg Reibman. Auchincloss suggested a three-pronged approach, beginning with the expansion … Continue Reading
April 04, 2025
Wall Street endures worst day since pandemic in response to Trump’s tariffs
Wall Street endured its worst day since the depths of the pandemic, with a major market selloff in response to President Trump’s new sweeping tariffs. Despite the turmoil, President Trump downplayed the economic reaction, comparing the U.S. economy to a sick patient now in recovery. “The operation is over, and now we let it settle in,” Trump said, framing the economic disruption as part of a broader plan. However, the global trade war may only be intensifying, with trading partners from the … Continue Reading
March 27, 2025
Rep. Jake Auchincloss: How Democrats Lost the Battle of Ideas During the Realignment
Congressman Jake Auchincloss, Representative of Massachusetts's 4th congressional district, returns to The Realignment. Jake and Marshall discuss the abundance agenda and the need to merge populist energy with actual results, why a focus on enhancing state capacity and defending programs like Social Security is compatible with abundance, and the need to reform America's higher education system, the endgame in the war in Ukraine, and the need to rebuild America's foreign policy after the end of … Continue Reading
March 26, 2025
LIVE: Trump DISASTER GROWS as COVER-UP Backfires
Jason Kander and Ravi Gupta break down the Signal fiasco, as the Atlantic releases more leaked messages after Trump officials accused them of lying. Ravi and Jason then turn to Trump’s latest executive order targeting top law firms, as Jenner & Block faces pressure and Paul Weiss caves, prompting George Conway to call it “the most disgraceful action by a major law firm in my lifetime.” Kander and Gupta then analyze the administration’s use of the Alien Enemies Act for mass deportations, … Continue Reading
March 25, 2025
‘Blatantly illegal’: Mass. leaders react to Trump officials leaking war plans through group chat
After it was revealed in The Atlantic that senior members of the Trump administration accidentally revealed secretive war plans to the magazine’s editor in a group chat, politicians across the country are demanding answers and expressing their outrage. Some of the most pointed responses have come from elected officials in Massachusetts. Sen. Elizabeth Warren said the leak was illegal and called administration officials “amateurs.” Rep. Katherine Clark called for people to be fired over the … Continue Reading
March 24, 2025
Middleboro MBTA station opens as line extends to South Coast
The new Middleboro train station is officially on track as part of the newly launched South Coast Rail. The Middleboro Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) station opened Monday, March 24, serving as a stop on the service extension to New Bedford and Fall River. “We are happy the commuter rail is open and look forward to the economic opportunities that it will bring Middleboro,’’ Middleboro Town Manager Jay McGrail said. This brings passenger rail to southeastern Massachusetts … Continue Reading
March 24, 2025
Dems seethe over war plan group chat. How to stick it to the GOP is an open question.
Democrats seized on the revelation that senior Trump administration officials discussed war plans in a group messaging app in an effort Monday to outflank Republicans on issues of competency and national security. Repeatedly they called out what they saw as hypocrisy from Republicans who litigated much of the 2016 presidential campaign over Hillary Clinton’s handling of classified information, even while several of the nearly dozen Democratic elected and appointed officials, strategists and … Continue Reading
March 21, 2025
Mass. delegation presses feds for details on mass firings: ‘Reckless purge’
Members of the Massachusetts congressional delegation want more details from the Trump administration on the scope of its federal workforce cuts in Massachusetts. In a letter Friday, they accused the president of overseeing a “reckless purge” with negative implications on disaster preparedness, public health, public safety and national security. Downsizing the federal government, including eliminating thousands of jobs and slashing key functions from education to foreign aid, has been a … Continue Reading
March 21, 2025
Rep. Jake Auchincloss: Democrats Are ‘Bereft of Big Ideas’
Rep. Jake Auchincloss's Massachusetts district is so safe he didn't even face a Republican opponent in 2024. So while some of his Democratic colleagues are focused on the careful messaging needed to appease swing voters or keep their purple seats, Auchincloss, 37, is fixated on the broader question facing his party: what are the big ideas that Democrats can offer the American people? TIME spoke to the rising House Democrat about owning up to the party's COVID-era mistakes, getting tough on … Continue Reading
March 16, 2025
Democratic Party 'needs generational debate,' lawmaker stresses
Rep. Jake Auchincloss, D-Mass., breaks down the division among Democrats over the government funding bill, party messaging and the future of the … Continue Reading
March 14, 2025
Jake Auchincloss: Acquiescing to Chaos & Corruption
John is joined by Massachusetts Democratic congressman Jake Auchincloss to discuss how his party is handling the clash over a government shutdown and the broader challenges of Donald Trump's second term. Jake argues that voting for the Republican measure to fund the government is a mistake in terms of both policy and politics; the freakout in the worlds of business and finance about Trump’s trade war is nothing compared to what we’ll see when (Jake predicts) Trump tries to take over the Fed; … Continue Reading