U.S. Rep. Richard Neal visited Life Care Center of Wilbraham, a skilled nursing and rehabilitation facility, to discuss how potential cuts to Medicaid, Medicare and Social Security would impact long- and short-term care providers and their clients.
The April 14 visit came as President Donald Trump’s administration has a federal budget reconciliation bill that has sparked controversy in… Read more »
The Massachusetts congressional delegation is demanding answers from the federal government after hundreds of arts grants under the National Endowment for the Humanities, including dozens earmarked for institutions in the Pioneer Valley, were canceled on the seeming recommendation of billionaire Elon Musk.
The delegation sent a joint letter, dated Monday and addressed to NEH… Read more »
The Department of Education has announced a change to student loan repayments that will impact millions of borrowers.
The Department of Education has announced they are ending any leniency on student loan repayments, impacting more than five million borrowers. Borrowers have mostly been in a grace period since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, but now the Trump administration… Read more »
The Silvio O. Conte Federal Building is off the list of “surplus” buildings the Trump administration wants to sell for now, according to one of its chief tenants — U.S. Rep. Richard Neal, D–Springfield.
In March, the U.S. General Services Administration listed the building among multiple Massachusetts locations being considered for possible sale. That list, which disappeared from… Read more »
U.S. Rep. Richard Neal, D-Springfield, Thursday said Democrats' best strategy to counteract the Trump administration is to "fracture" his support on Capitol Hill and that decisions like the withdrawal of funds to promote resilient infrastructure will be successfully challenged in the courts.
Neal was in town to celebrate a $500,000 appropriation he helped secure to help the… Read more »
A total of 36 of the city’s most vulnerable residents will soon be handed a key to their own apartment with their own kitchen, bathroom and a myriad of supportive services that will keep them stable, housed and able to move forward.
Officials for Clinical and Support Options Inc. officially broke ground on the approximately $20 million project at 775 Worthington St. Wednesday,… Read more »
US Representative Richie Neal cosponsored a measure that would block President Trump’s “emergency” tariff power last week. Then, on Friday, the Springfield Democrat took aim at the president’s trade decisions during a speech in Boston.
It’s a topic that Neal is passionate about: He was instrumental in helping to craft a three-way trade pact with Canada and Mexico known as USMCA… Read more »
The White House acknowledged Friday reclassifying more than 6,000 living immigrants with temporary status and legal Social Security numbers as dead in an effort to force them to “self deport.”
It’s a move U.S. Reps. Richard E. Neal, D-Springfield, and John B. Larson, D-Connecticut, likened it to “digital murder” after it was first reported Thursday by the New York… Read more »
Today, U.S. Rep. Richard E. Neal (D – 1st Massachusetts District) joined Carrie Greene, president of the Williamstown Meetinghouse Preservation Fund, to announce $500,000 in federal funding for the Williamstown Meetinghouse.
This allocation was made possible through Congressionally Directed Spending (CDS) from the Department of Housing and Urban Development. Rep. Neal included funding… Read more »
Residents in the state and around the country participated in “Hands Off!” protests on Saturday, showing their opposition toward President Trump and Elon Musk.
Described as a national day of action, Hands Off! protests are taking place in many areas of western Massachusetts, with locals and officials speaking out against the current administration.
“It’s affecting every… Read more »
