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  • Moulton hits Markey over prior support for war authorization

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    BOSTON — An expected vote by the U.S. Senate on a war powers resolution to restrict U.S. military action in Venezuela has become a campaign issue in the Democratic primary race between incumbent U.S. Sen. Ed Markey and challenger U.S Rep. Seth Moulton.

    The Senate on Thursday is poised to vote on a war powers resolution, filed by Democratic Sen. Tim Kaine of Virginia, to halt President Donald Trump’s use of military force against Venezuela. 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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  • Healey urges Congress to extend Obamacare credits

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    BOSTON — Democratic Gov. Maura Healey is renewing calls for Congress to extend Obamacare tax credits, warning that health care premiums for tens of thousands of Bay Staters will skyrocket without legislative action.

    The U.S. Senate was expected to vote earlier this week on a Democratic proposal to extend the premium tax credits implemented during the COVID-19 pandemic and Healey is urging congressional Republicans and President Donald Trump to support the plan.

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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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  • 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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  • Shapiro slams Trump, Vance over SNAP freeze, calls VP a ‘phony’

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    PHILADELPHIA — Full SNAP benefits payments were flowing Friday to Pennsylvanians who were due at the start of November, Gov. Josh Shapiro announced while ripping into President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance, who he accused of acting purposefully to “keep people hungry.”

    “Folks got to wake up and realize the people who are leading in America quite literally want to keep people hungry. And, you’ll excuse me for getting emotional about it, but when I see people in my state who are hungry because of JD Vance’s bull—- politics, that makes me angry and that’s why I went to court,” Shapiro said. “America deserves better than JD Vance.”

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    PHILADELPHIA — Full SNAP benefits payments were flowing Friday to Pennsylvanians who were due at the start of November, Gov. Josh Shapiro announced while ripping into President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance, who he accused of acting purposefully to “keep people hungry.”

    “Folks got to wake up and realize the people who are leading in America quite literally want to keep people hungry. And, you’ll excuse me for getting emotional about it, but when I see people in my state who are hungry because of JD Vance’s bull—- politics, that makes me angry and that’s why I went to court,” Shapiro said. “America deserves better than JD Vance.”

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  • Shapiro slams Trump, Vance over SNAP freeze, calls VP a ‘phony’

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    PHILADELPHIA — Full SNAP benefits payments were flowing Friday to Pennsylvanians who were due at the start of November, Gov. Josh Shapiro announced while ripping into President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance, who he accused of acting purposefully to “keep people hungry.”

    “Folks got to wake up and realize the people who are leading in America quite literally want to keep people hungry. And, you’ll excuse me for getting emotional about it, but when I see people in my state who are hungry because of JD Vance’s bull—- politics, that makes me angry and that’s why I went to court,” Shapiro said. “America deserves better than JD Vance.”


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  • State pressured to tap reserves for SNAP benefits

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    BOSTON — Beacon Hill leaders are being urged to tap the state’s $8.6 billion “rainy day” fund to help offset the impact of the federal government’s refusal to fully fund the food stamp program during the shutdown.

    Raise Up Massachusetts, a coalition of unions, community groups and faith leaders, is calling on Gov. Maura Healey and legislative leaders to allocate funding from the state’s reserve fund to “prevent the worst harm from federal cuts to SNAP, Medicaid, education funding, and other critical programs.”


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  • 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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  • 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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  • State seeks piece of $50B rural hospital fund

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    BOSTON — Massachusetts is chasing after a slice of a $50 billion federal fund created as part of President Donald Trump’s tax and policy bill to help offset the impact of looming Medicaid cuts on rural health care systems.

    The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services launched its Rural Health Transformation Program last month, encouraging states to apply for a slice of the funding to “reimagine care delivery and develop innovative, enduring, state-driven solutions to tackle the root causes of poor health outcomes specific to rural America.”


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  • 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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  • 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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