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Iran is weak and wounded. Now’s the time to ratchet up pressure.
After four years of the Biden administration trying — and failing — to sweeten the world’s foremost sponsor of terror into good behavior, the Trump administration’s shift back to maximum pressure on Iran is a welcome change. And a timely one. Tehran is in weak standing with the Iranian public. Its “axis of resistance” has been weakened by war with Israel. By returning to a tough sanctions policy that has zero tolerance for a nuclear weapon or Iran’s regional meddling, the Trump administration … Continue Reading
March 12, 2025
"Stop telling Russia it has all the cards:" Democratic lawmaker responds to next steps in Russia-Ukraine conflict
Democratic Rep. Jake Auchincloss of Massachusetts tells Wolf Blitzer the "linchpin" in the next steps to end the war will be security guarantees to Ukraine and without them, "everything else is … Continue Reading
March 10, 2025
Over texts and ‘eyeball to eyeball,’ Republicans succeed in persuading Musk. But Democrats hit dead ends
When a multi-million federal grant program for dairy businesses was shut down earlier this month in line with Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency push to downsize the government, Wisconsin lawmakers on both sides of the aisle sprang into action to try and save it. The Democratic senator who created the program, Sen. Tammy Baldwin, ran into resistance, facing dead ends in the Trump administration before eventually reaching the Agriculture secretary. GOP Rep. Derrick Van Orden, … Continue Reading
March 10, 2025
Auchincloss Addresses District Priorities, Challenging President Trump at Fall River Q&A Session
Dozens of residents from the 4th Congressional District, which includes Fall River, participated in a Q & A session with Congressman Jake Auchincloss at Durfee High School Saturday afternoon. The congressman spent an hour taking questions from over twenty constituents mainly focusing on the uncertainties created by executive orders and policies initiated by President Donald Trump during his first month in office. Regardless of what’s taking place in Washington, Congressman Auchincloss … Continue Reading
March 10, 2025
Democrats Backed Into a Corner in Government Shutdown Fight
WASHINGTON—Federal agencies risk shutting down late Friday night, and the Republican-led plan to keep them open has Democrats in Congress backed into a corner with few—if any—good options. The Democratic base has been begging party leaders to fight harder at every turn, but on most issues congressional Democrats are powerless in Republican-controlled Washington. They can’t stop President Trump’s nominations, his still-developing tax bill or GOP regulatory repeals, let alone the cuts that … Continue Reading
March 05, 2025
Trump is about to make your insurance bill more expensive
In a time of growing instability, there’s one thing we can be certain of: President Donald Trump is going to make your insurance more expensive. Before getting elected to Congress, I worked in the insurance industry, where I helped build new solutions to changes in homeownership, mobility and litigation. The president’s every action, from tariff threats to targeting immigrant workers, is setting off actuarial alarm bells. Insurance companies underwrite risk. First, they calculate how likely … Continue Reading
March 04, 2025
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
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 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 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