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AGs sue to claw back clean energy grants

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BOSTON — Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Campbell has joined a new multistate lawsuit against the Trump administration seeking to recoup more than $7.2 billion in frozen energy and infrastructure grants.

The lawsuit, filed Wednesday in U.S. District Court in California by Campbell and 12 other attorneys general, challenges an “unlawful decision” by the U.S. Department of Energy and the Office of Management and Budget to withhold the funding for renewable energy projects in mostly Democratic-led states.

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February 23, 2026
U.S. Senate moves to limit Trump’s war powers

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BOSTON — Massachusetts’ two U.S. senators have joined other Democrats and a handful of Republicans in passing a war powers resolution to limit President Donald Trump’s military action in Venezuela, as the U.S. House of Representatives prepares to vote on a similar measure.

The Senate voted 52-47 Thursday to approve a resolution that prohibits further U.S. military action in Venezuela, unless Congress authorizes it. The move comes after Trump ordered the capture of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife, who were brought to New York to face drug trafficking and weapons charges.

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January 9, 2026
Region’s lawmakers slam Trump’s invasion of Venezuela

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WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s invasion of Venezuela and the kidnapping of its president and his wife drew swift and harsh rebukes from area members of Congress, who branded the military action as “regime change,” a “rogue attack” and an unauthorized act of war.

On Friday night, the United States carried out a major military operation in Venezuela, capturing President Nicolas Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, during the overnight raid in Caracas and removing them from the country. They landed in New York on Saturday to face federal charges related to narco-terrorism and drug trafficking, Trump said in a press conference from his home in Mar-a-Lago, Florida.

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Democrats vow to challenge ban on gender-affirming care

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BOSTON — Foreshadowing a legal challenge, Massachusetts Attorney General Campbell is joining a chorus of criticism over the Trump administration’s move to effectively ban gender-affirming care for minors at hospitals that depend on federal funding.

On Thursday, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services issued new regulations that would once finalized, restrict the use of puberty blockers, hormone therapy and surgical interventions for transgender children.

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Healey to Trump: Release LIHEAP fuel assistance

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BOSTON — Gov. Maura Healey is joining a chorus demanding the Trump administration release federal dollars aimed at helping low-income people heat their homes with winter fast approaching.

On Thursday, Healey blasted President Donald Trump for delays in distributing Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program funding, which comes even after the federal government reopened last week following a 43-day shutdown. The Democrat said the Trump administration has said it will not release LIHEAP money to states until the end of the month.

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November 20, 2025
AGs reach deal with DOE on education funding

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BOSTON — The Trump administration has agreed to release $1.1 billion in funding for post-COVID-19 pandemic academic recovery it clawed back from Massachusetts and other states before the move was challenged in federal court.

The agreement with the U.S. Department of Education, announced Friday in a letter to U.S. District Court Judge Edgardo Ramos, settles a multi-state lawsuit filed in March by Attorney General Andrea Campbell and other Democrats alleging the federal agency’s move to claw back the congressionally approved funding violated the Administrative Procedure Act.

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November 17, 2025
Today in History: Nov. 17, the NFL’s infamous ‘Heidi Game’

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Today is Monday, Nov. 17, the 321st day of 2025. There are 44 days left in the year.

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November 17, 2025
Slavit Baylis weighs run for Congress

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BOSTON — The wide-open race to fill the North Shore’s soon-to-be-vacated congressional seat continues to draw interest from Democrats who say the party needs to push back harder against the Trump administration’s divisive policies.

Diann Slavit Baylis, a Marblehead immigration attorney who served as a Massachusetts delegate to the 2024 Democratic National Convention, said Tuesday she is “considering” a run for the 6th Congressional District in next year’s midterm elections.

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November 8, 2025
Officials press feds to fully fund SNAP

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The Bay State’s top Democrats are calling on the Trump administration to release more federal SNAP funding after the White House rolled out a plan to only partially fund the food assistance program.

In a filing in the U.S. District Court on Monday, Trump’s administration “committed” to partially funding the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program with $4.65 billion in contingency funds in November. That’s roughly half of the $8 billion a month needed to keep the SNAP program fully funded.

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November 3, 2025
AGs sue to preserve food stamp funding

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BOSTON — Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Campbell co-led more than two dozen states Tuesday in suing the Trump administration over its refusal to fund food stamps during the federal government’s shutdown.

In the lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court in Boston, Campbell and other Democratic attorneys general ask a federal judge to force the White House to tap emergency reserve funds to prevent roughly 42 million Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program recipients from losing their food benefits beginning next week.

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October 29, 2025
Campbell seeks another term

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BOSTON — Democratic Attorney General Andrea Campbell is running for reelection, touting her efforts to protect civil rights and consumer protections and filing litigation pushing back against the Trump administration’s divisive policies.

Campbell, the state’s first Black attorney general, announced Tuesday that she plans to seek another four-year term as the state’s top law enforcement official in the 2026 elections.

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October 25, 2025
AGs sue Trump EPA over solar energy program

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BOSTON — Attorney General Andrea Campbell has joined about two dozen other Democrats in suing the Trump administration over its decision to pull the plug on a $7 billion solar energy program for low-income households.

The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court in Washington, alleges that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency violated federal law and the Administrative Procedures Act when it terminated the Solar for All program, approved by Congress in 2023 as part of the Biden administration’s Inflation Reduction Act.

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Christian M. Wade covers the Massachusetts Statehouse for North of Boston Media Group’s newspapers and websites. Email him at cwade@cnhinews.com.

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October 20, 2025
Healey rips EPA for delays in lead removal funding

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BOSTON — Gov. Maura Healey is renewing calls for the Trump administration to release federal funding to remove underground lead pipes from drinking water systems after months of delays.

Healey blasted the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for continuing to hold back the money from Massachusetts and other states. She said the delays have forced the state to discontinue its lead line replacement program that provides zero-interest loans to communities to identify and remove contamination.

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October 13, 2025
Report: Slips in employer optimism tied to Trump tariffs

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BOSTON — The state’s economy may be on solid footing but employers are becoming increasingly pessimistic about the impact of President Donald Trump’s tariffs on their bottom lines, according to a new report.

The latest Business Confidence Index, which is compiled by the pro-business group Associated Industries of Massachusetts, shows overall enthusiasm among employers “grew darker” after slipping 1.4 points to 47.5 on a 100-point scale in September.

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October 6, 2025
FEMA cuts anti-terrorism funding; AGs sue to block move

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The Trump administration is slashing anti-terrorism funding for Massachusetts and other Democratic-led states that refuse to cooperate with federal immigration crackdowns, drawing a new legal challenge.

The Federal Emergency Management Agency announced its annual grant allocations through the Homeland Security Grant Program, which was approved by Congress in response to the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. The funding supports intelligence operations, large-event security, planning, equipment purchases and police training.

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October 4, 2025
Federal judge blocks Trump’s cuts in FEMA funding

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BOSTON — The Trump administration can’t block federal disaster relief funding for Massachusetts and other states for refusing to cooperate with immigration crackdowns, a federal judge has ruled.

The ruling by U.S. District Court Judge William E. Smith in Rhode Island sided with Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Campbell and 22 other Democrats who sued to block a Homeland Security policy tying Federal Emergency Management Agency disaster funding to a state’s willingness to cooperate with immigration enforcement.

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September 29, 2025
Federal judge overturns Trump’s Harvard funding freeze

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BOSTON — A federal judge has ruled that the Trump administration’s move to freeze $2.2 billion in research funding for Harvard University was unconstitutional.

The ruling issued Wednesday by U.S. District Judge Allison D. Burroughs in Boston said the funding freeze amounted to “retaliation, unconstitutional conditions, and unconstitutional coercion” against the Ivy League school for refusing to yield to the White House’s “ideologically motivated” policy demands.

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September 5, 2025
DOT pulls plug on funding for Salem wind project

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BOSTON — Gov. Maura Healey and other state leaders are blasting the Trump administration for clawing back $33.8 million in federal funding for a Salem project to support offshore wind development, saying the move jeopardizes hundreds of jobs and the state’s climate change goals.

The U.S. Department of Transportation on Friday canceled $679 million in federal funding for a dozen infrastructure projects that would support offshore wind, saying the plans “were not aligned with the goals and priorities of the administration.”

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September 3, 2025
Healey to Trump: Hands off South Station

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BOSTON — Gov. Maura Healey is pushing back on suggestions from the Trump administration that it might take over Boston’s South Street station from the state’s public transit agency.

U.S. Assistant Secretary of Transportation Steven Bradbury floated the idea during an event at the station Wednesday as Amtrak was unveiling its new, faster Acela trains.

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September 1, 2025
Supreme Court OKs Trump’s cuts to research funding

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BOSTON — Massachusetts leaders are blasting a U.S. Supreme Court court ruling that will allow the Trump administration to claw back nearly $800 million in federal grants for medical and scientific research, saying the move will hurt patients and institutions who rely on the money for lifesaving work.

A divided Supreme Court on Thursday issued an unsigned order allowing the National Institutes of Health, the largest public funding source for biomedical research in the world, to terminate federal grants linked to diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives.

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