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Boston Globe: One year after Steward bankruptcy, Warren, Markey demand criminal probe
One year after Steward Health Care filed for bankruptcy protection, Massachusetts lawmakers are renewing calls for the Justice Department to take action against the company’s chief executive, Dr. Ralph de la Torre. Despite the closure of two hospitals in Massachusetts, hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars being spent to sustain Steward’s other flailing hospitals, and millions of dollars still owed and being clawed back from Massachusetts businesses, de la Torre has yet to be held … Continue Reading
May 02, 2025
Boston Globe: ‘A massive win’: After Stop & Shop lowers Jamaica Plain store prices, youth organizers rejoice
The youth organizers of Hyde Square Task Force are claiming success, once again. Nearly two years after releasing a grassroots study on pricing differences at Boston-area Stop & Shop locations, in which the students found a grocery cart of items at their nearby Jackson Square store cost $34 more than a list of similar products in the more affluent Dedham, the prices at both stores are now roughly equal. During an April shopping trip to both stores, with the same shopping list they first … Continue Reading
April 30, 2025
The Verge: Elizabeth Warren asks Jeff Bezos if he got any favors for his ‘subservience’ to Trump
Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) wants to know whether Amazon founder Jeff Bezos received any “promises or favors” from President Donald Trump in exchange for his “subservience” after dropping all plans to show customers the cost of tariffs. In a letter sent on Wednesday, Warren questions Bezos about the details of his conversation with Trump and raises concerns “about the potential for tariff-related corruption.” On Tuesday, Trump called Bezos to complain after a Punchbowl News report said … Continue Reading
April 30, 2025
NBC News: Democrats question Customs and Border Protection tactics at points of entry
A green card holder detained on return to the United States and denied access to medications. The handcuffing and body search of an American citizen after she questioned the detention of her German travel partner. The detention for five days of an immigrant mother and her two children who became sick in custody. Recent reports about Customs and Border Protection actions at ports of entry are the focus of a letter signed by more than 40 Democratic members of Congress questioning the agency’s … Continue Reading
April 29, 2025
Boston.com: Warren questions Walgreens sale, warns of potential impact on healthcare access
Sen. Elizabeth Warren is demanding answers from Sycamore Partners over its proposed $10 billion acquisition of Walgreens, warning the deal could threaten healthcare access for Massachusetts residents. In a letter to the private equity firm Sycamore Partners on Tuesday, Warren listed a series of questions aimed at ensuring there won’t be a repeat of the Steward Health Care debacle and to prevent “pharmacy deserts” in the state. Questions include: Does Sycamore plan to close any … Continue Reading
April 29, 2025
HuffPost: Elizabeth Warren Marks 100 Days Of Trump By Reading Aloud 100 Reports Of His Corruption
Donald Trump is 100 days into his second presidency, and to mark the occasion, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) plans to read into the congressional record what she says are 100 cases of Trump using the presidency to personally benefit himself and his allies. “One hundred days, one hundred acts of corruption,” Warren will say in a Tuesday night speech on the Senate floor. HuffPost obtained a copy of her planned remarks. “When he ran for office, Trump promised repeatedly that he would lower … Continue Reading
April 25, 2025
MarketWatch: Elizabeth Warren presses Bessent for answers after his remarks at private Wall Street event
Sen. Elizabeth Warren, the ranking Democrat on the Senate Banking Committee, on Friday pressed Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent to explain why he gave “inside information” on President Donald Trump’s tariff plans to Wall Street insiders and not the broader public. Speaking at a closed-door, invitation-only event hosted by JPMorgan Chase on Tuesday, Bessent said that the tariff standoff between China and the U.S. would soon de-escalate. When reports of his remarks leaked to the press, it … Continue Reading
April 24, 2025
ABC News: Warren investigates impact on students, teachers from Education Dept. cuts
Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren's Save Our Schools campaign is launching a comprehensive investigation into the Trump administration's effort to close the Department of Education. "I'm opening this investigation to hear directly from students, parents, teachers, and borrowers who are being hurt by Trump's dangerous agenda," Warren wrote in a statement obtained first by ABC News. "Their stories matter -- and they are why I'm in this fight," she said. Warren said since Trump's move to … Continue Reading
April 24, 2025
Democrats urge Social Security Administration to keep field offices open
Democratic lawmakers, led by Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Massachusetts), are urging the Social Security Administration to keep open its field offices and demanding transparency about potential closures in a new letter. In addition to Warren, 65 House members and 40 senators signed the letter to acting Social Security commissioner Leland Dudek on Wednesday, requesting that he commit to keeping open the field offices and tell them if the agency intends to close any. The request came after the … Continue Reading
April 23, 2025
Bloomberg: Apple CEO Cook Urged by Senator Warren to Disclose Trump Tariff Talks
Senator Elizabeth Warren on Wednesday questioned Apple Inc. Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook on his discussions with the Trump administration ahead of the president’s retreat on tariffs covering crucial Apple products built in China. “The circumstances surrounding Apple’s exemptions raise fresh concerns about influence-peddling by huge well-connected corporations, and their ability to gain special favors from President Trump,” Warren wrote in a letter to Cook which was obtained by Bloomberg … Continue Reading
April 23, 2025
Warren Warns of ‘Backdoor Way’ Trump and Musk Want to Gut Social Security
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) released a new video on Wednesday warning seniors that Donald Trump and Elon Musk “are taking a chainsaw to your Social Security.” In the video, recorded as a Q&A-style explainer and posted on YouTube, Warren details the carnage that’s unfolding at the Social Security Administration (SSA) — thanks to Musk, the world’s richest man — and his so-called Department of Government Efficiency. DOGE has led efforts to fire thousands of workers at the SSA and shutter … Continue Reading
April 23, 2025
Senate Democrats seek answers from inspector general on Social Security cuts
Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer (New York) and four other Senate Democrats are urging the Social Security Administration’s inspector general’s office to investigate the impacts of the U.S. DOGE Service’s dramatic restructuring and sweeping cuts to the government agency. The letter sent to the inspector general’s office Wednesday is part of a broader Democratic effort to defend Social Security from what they describe as a reckless government downsizing campaign spearheaded by Donald … Continue Reading
April 22, 2025
Boston Globe: Mass. congressional delegation demands answers from NEH on grant cancellations
Members of the Massachusetts congressional delegation are asking the acting chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities to explain the agency’s recent decision to cancel NEH grants in Massachusetts and across the country. In a letter sent Monday to Michael McDonald, the acting NEH chair, the delegation demands to know “why you are crippling an agency that punches so far above its weight and is essential to enabling access to libraries, museums, archives, historic sites and more for … Continue Reading
April 22, 2025
CBS News: The IRS free tax-filing program Direct File saved users $160 each. Now it may come to an end.
Data shows the IRS' Direct File free tax-filing tool has helped save taxpayers money. Now lawmakers want to know why the Trump administration may soon pull the plug on the program. The Trump administration is planning on ending Direct File, the Associated Press reported earlier this month, citing people familiar with the plan. The program, launched during Joe Biden's presidency, has been credited by some users with making it easier and cheaper to file their taxes, saving the average user $160 … Continue Reading
April 18, 2025
Boston Globe: Senator Warren demands documents outlining basis ‘or lack thereof’ of Tufts’ student’s immigration detention
In a letter sent Thursday, Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren demanded documentation from the federal government explaining its rationale for detaining Rümeysa Öztürk, the Tufts graduate student from Turkey who was apprehended by masked immigration enforcement agents while walking to dinner in Somerville last month. In the letter addressed to Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Warren said it has been three weeks since Öztürk was arrested on March 25 and still the federal government has not … Continue Reading
April 17, 2025
CNBC: Trump’s tariffs are ‘inviting corruption,’ Democrats tell Bessent, Lutnick
Dozens of Democratic lawmakers are warning that President Donald Trump’s tariff-heavy trade agenda is quickly starting to resemble a “corrupt scheme to enrich administration officials and those loyal to them.” The Trump administration’s tumultuous rollout of a spate of new tariffs is “rife with opportunities to unduly influence President Trump and other administration officials,” the Democrats wrote in a letter shared first with CNBC on Thursday. The letter, signed by 47 House and Senate … Continue Reading
April 15, 2025
New York Times: Senators Investigate Private Equity Role in Soaring Fire-Truck Costs
As fire departments around the country report soaring prices and waiting times for new fire engines, two United States Senators are investigating the effect on public safety and the role that private equity investment has played in disrupting the firefighting equipment industry. The senators — Elizabeth Warren, Democrat of Massachusetts, and Jim Banks, Republican of Indiana — reported on Tuesday that they had heard from dozens of fire departments about delayed deliveries, defective parts and … Continue Reading
April 15, 2025
NOTUS: Democrats Accuse Intuit of ‘Misleading’ Taxpayers Into Paying for TurboTax
Some Democratic lawmakers are accusing TurboTax owner Intuit of misleading taxpayers as the company advocates for shuttering the government’s free direct tax filing program. TurboTax, which currently dominates the tax preparation market, promises free tax filing services for eligible individuals. But a new analysis by Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s staff found TurboTax covertly switched their sample taxpayer from the free edition, ultimately charging $128 for services they could file for free with … Continue Reading
April 15, 2025
SEN ELIZABETH WARREN: Social Security is under attack. Gutting it is a broken promise
Gutting Social Security isn’t "efficient" — it’s a broken promise. Democrats and Republicans should stand up and fight back to protect it. Social Security is not charity. Americans pay in, paycheck after paycheck, over a lifetime of hard work. When they get older, they get that money back to help them retire. That’s the iron-clad, take-it-to-the-bank promise that America makes to workers. But right now, Social Security is under attack like it has never been before. Billionaire Commerce … Continue Reading
April 14, 2025
Democratic senators press Social Security Administration on reports of ‘dangerous’ employee cuts
Several Democratic senators are demanding answers from the Social Security Administration following reports that the agency may make staff cuts to a significant department within the agency. The Social Security Administration is reportedly considering additional workforce reductions, including a potential 50% cut in the Office of the Chief Investment Officer. The department, otherwise known as OCIO, is responsible for protecting sensitive data, maintaining benefit claims processing systems, … Continue Reading