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President Donald Trump’s administration recently canceled an $87 million grant issued to Sublime Systems — whose low-carbon cement manufacturing plant is scheduled to open in Holyoke in 2027. But the company said it will continue.   Sublime has technology developed at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to make cement using electricity, a process designed to cut down the… Read more »

Massachusetts lawmakers are speaking out amid ongoing protests in Los Angeles and those who represent the Commonwealth in Washington D.C. are sounding the alarm on President Trump’s reaction. We reached out to Congressman Richard Neal on Monday and, while he wasn’t available to go on camera, he did pass along a statement that stated that the president is showing a complete… Read more »

Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Richard E. Neal (D-MA) released the following statement on the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) May 2025 jobs report: “The warning signs are here: revisions quietly wiped out 95,000 jobs from the past two months and participation in the labor force shrunk. The President is sowing cracks underneath the resilient economy he inherited—his… Read more »

Today, Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Richard E. Neal (D-MA) and Social Security Subcommittee Ranking Member John B. Larson (D-CT) released the following statement after the Supreme Court stepped in to allow Elon Musk’s ‘DOGE’ access to Social Security beneficiaries’ personal data. “Today’s decision by the Supreme Court should alarm every American. Common sense suggests that… Read more »

Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Richard E. Neal (D-MA) released the following statement after the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released their latest analysis that reaffirmed the harm of the GOP reconciliation bill: “Today’s CBO analysis paints an even bleaker picture than we previously imagined: $2.4 trillion will be added to the debt and even more Americans will… Read more »

Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Richard E. Neal (D-MA) released the following statement after the Congressional Budget Office’s (CBO) latest analysis affirmed that Trump’s reckless tariff scheme will slow growth and raise prices:  “The CBO’s report confirms what workers and families have feared for months: Trump’s Tariffs are bad news for our economy, shrinking future output… Read more »

Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Richard E. Neal (D-MA), House Energy and Commerce Committee Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden (D-OR) released a statement following a new analysis from the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) showing 16 million people will lose coverage from the Republican reconciliation plan, including… Read more »

Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Richard E. Neal (D-MA) released the following statement after the Trump Administration gutted the Internal Revenue Service budget: “Let’s call this what it is: a giveaway to tax cheats. Slashing the IRS budget will undermine customer service and enforcement, enable the richest to dodge what they owe, and shift the burden onto everyone… Read more »

Luz Ramos, a 29-year resident of the Bay Meadow Apartments affordable housing complex in Springfield, helped Monday to turn on new, high-speed internet capable of delivering up to 1 gigabit-a-second upload and download speeds.   “This is going to open a lot of doors,” Ramos said after a news conference Monday at the complex.   She recently received her high school… Read more »

Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Richard E. Neal (D-MA) released the following statement after the President released his latest budget proposal that betrays the American people: “The President’s latest proposal is just the next step in an agenda rooted in cruelty— targeting families trying to get by while shielding those at the top. His cruel, chaotic, and deeply unserious… Read more »