Mistrust and paranoia grow when fear & favor replace safety & efficacy. Makary needs to lead the FDA, not follow RFK Jr. www.statnews.com/2025/10/31/v...

While serving as a White House advisor, Calley Means helped craft the MAHA agenda to financially benefit his company, True Medicine Inc. @schiff.senate.gov and I are demanding answers from RFK Jr. on why the White House encouraged this grift.

Happy Halloween!

@massgovernor.bsky.social is stepping up on SNAP, just like she has on science and energy, when Trump acts illegally. But no governor can backfill the need. It’s a federal program and needs to be federally delivered.

Americans support Medicaid. Where MAGA tries to cut it, Democrats should make it a quality, affordable option for long-term care for the middle class.

Focusing on work, wages & wealth at Taco Comfort Solutions in Fall River, which trains and employs welders & other skilled trades in building water tanks and industrial HVAC solutions. www.heraldnews.com/videos/news/...

The CDC’s endorsement of separating the MMR vaccine into three shots is based not on science but on “what I feel”, according to the president. It will require more doctor visits and more needles, reducing uptake and increasing measles rates. www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

The Speaker has prevented Congress from even voting on tariffs — the biggest tax hike in modern American history.

They want the mandate but not the accountability. That's not leadership.

No matter how hard the Speaker tries to change the subject, Medicaid is about health care, not about immigration. Americans see through the talking points and understand that their health-care bills will go up so that taxes for the rich can go down.

The middle class is paying more for everything in Trump's economy. There are simple, popular policies on Medicaid & tariffs that could help. To lower prices, the president should get to yes on them in today's meeting. youtube.com/shorts/Fr634...

China is building dozens of Kendall Squares while MAGA tries to cut medical research funding in half. youtube.com/shorts/WVgm3...

Necessity is the mother of invention. MAGA is cutting Medicaid. An upcoming waiver process, though, gives Massachusetts the opportunity to invent a stronger version of MassHealth that lowers costs and improves access. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/22/o...

Periodic reminder that RFK Jr. caused the death of dozens of Samoan children from measles and called it a ‘natural experiment’.

If bagels cost $7 in one market and $400 at another across the street, you’d ask the grocery managers some tough questions. Well, that’s Rx drugs under the control of the pharmacy benefit managers — the middlemen of drug pricing. www.cap-rx.com/insights/ah0...

This family business manufactures textiles in my district. Trump's tariffs are hurting it by raising input prices. www.wsj.com/opinion/how-...

Corporations are spending hundreds of billions of dollars to capture this reward system. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/04/o...

GOP senator votes to confirm anti-vaxxer, is shocked by anti-vax policy.

The NIH is withholding funding from Massachusetts scientists. We’re going to fight back, secure the grants, and advance science. www.masslive.com/politics/202...

Yes www.nytimes.com/2025/08/30/o...

New school year, new school shooting. Instead of wasting ink searching for a motive, which only serves this child murderer’s ego, the focus must be on gun policy. Easy access to guns is a choice, and it costs lives. apnews.com/article/minn...

Strength: strangling Russian oil exports & sending 300 billion euros of its frozen assets to Ukraine's military. Then, summoning Putin to negotiations with NATO + Ukraine. youtu.be/HhZZlUZQPqo

With such a slapdash summit, the best one can hope for is that Trump pressures Putin to release Ukrainian children as a trust-building measure to advance talks.

RFK Jr. talks about chronic disease, but has delivered corruption & quackery instead. From NIH reform to fighting Big Food, there's plenty of bipartisan potential. But not when grift is their game. www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

It’s not his ‘next’ target. It’s always been the target. RFK Jr. is going to use VICP to derail vaccine development & distribution. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/11/h...

RFK Jr.'s termination of funding for mRNA vaccines is his latest anti-science assault on public health. apnews.com/article/kenn...

End the social media corporations’ special immunity, prevent them from imposing terms & conditions on pre-teens, and make them pay their taxes. youtu.be/zAu6Orpc02o

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is an engine of better health and economic development. Congress knows that, economists know that, and Bay Staters know that. Any attempts to cut the NIH must be stopped cold.

Funding science is a good investment. Every dollar spent returns multiples from which all Americans benefit, through higher standard of living, healthier families, and national defense.

On Wednesday, July 30, I'll be hosting a Congressional Update and Q&A in Newton from 7:30pm-9:00pm. This is an opportunity for you to ask questions and hear updates on how I’m working to represent the district. RSVP here: www.eventbrite.com/e/congressio...

Hallucinated drug reviews. Politicized priority vouchers. Purges of top scientists. Rejection notices leaked with unprofessional talk tracks. The Food & Drug Administration is bleeding out its integrity. The Commissioner needs to change course and focus on the FDA's safety & efficacy mandate.

The president seems to be recognizing, a decade late, that Vladimir Putin is an enemy. Now he must demonstrate strength, not vacillation. www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0FC...

The directors of the Shriver and Grafton Job Corps Centers recently met with me in Washington to discuss the cruel and counterproductive actions by the Department of Labor (DOL) against Job Corps. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/07/20/m...

The Commissioner of the Food & Drug Administration has no authority to offer special approval pathways based on his policy preferences. www.youtube.com/shorts/jajuh...

Today, I reintroduced bipartisan legislation as an original cosponsor — drafted by Congresswoman Veronica Escobar and Congresswoman María Elvira Salazar — that secures the border, fixes the visa backlog, and vests undocumented immigrants with legal rights & responsibilities.

I mourn for the nine Fall River residents who died in last night's fire, and I am keeping the over 30 hospitalized residents in my thoughts, wishing them all a full recovery. Thank you to the firefighters and first responders who prevented an even greater tragedy.

Like a deer in the headlights. Instead of weak & confused, the president must be strong on Ukraine. Strength starts with defining victory: a secure eastern border, freedom of navigation in the Black Sea, and accession to the European Union.

Putting RFK Jr. in charge of vaccines is like making a flat-earther the head of NASA.

Housing & healthcare have cost disease. Treating it must be core to the Democrats' agenda for financial freedom. My essay in The Economist: www.economist.com/by-invitatio...

After a few hours of performative opposition, the House GOP is caving to Trump’s Medicaid cuts & debt binge. It’s bad for Massachusetts and unfair to the middle class.

Here with Hakeem as he makes plain for the American public that when Republicans gut health care for millions, Democrats fight back.

The Secretary of Commerce is too conflicted on Tether & crypto to be entrusted, as a recent bill proposes, to 'pursue U.S. leadership of blockchain technology'. He will pursue personal profit, not the public interest. youtube.com/shorts/KqRrN...

What GOP says: “all of the above energy strategy." What GOP does: crushes nuclear, geothermal, and offshore wind. youtu.be/I1GPMhby7K8

Under questioning about 'radical transparency', RFK Jr. refuses to defend Calley Means' conflict of interest benefiting his own 'wellness' business, which sells saunas & supplements. www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWnc...

Two things should happen immediately: - Iran surrenders its nuclear program & ceases funding terrorists. - Congress revokes the 2001 & 2002 war authorities so that the American public can get an open & thorough debate on war-making.

RFK Jr. and his aides accuse scientists of corruption, but they are the ones plundering public health. The self-dealing is damning. Time to focus the spotlight, collect the receipts, and prepare the investigation. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/06/16/n...

The Secretary of Energy & Democrats agree: nuclear & geothermal help achieve energy dominance, and the Loan Programs Office & the IRA tax credits help nuclear & geothermal. Yet House Republicans are gutting both. youtube.com/shorts/VsAWb...

This parade was not about the 250th anniversary of the United States Army; it's an expensive birthday party for the Dear Leader. George Washington refused to politicize the Continental Army at this nation's founding, and presidents must sustain that tradition.

The political terrorism in Minnesota is a tragedy and a warning. The demonization and conspiracy in our discourse must stop. Everyone must condemn hate, extremism, and violence.

As a former captain who commanded infantry at Twentynine Palms, I know these Marines deserve better than Trump's corruption and Hegseth's incompetence. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...