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'Uncharted waters': Boston finds itself in the Trump administration's crosshairs 05:19 Resume March 13, 2025 Simón Rios   Boston is experiencing what some say is an unprecedented attack from the federal government. "City government should be spending money on plowing snow and ... making it safe to walk downtown — not playing defense for a whole bunch of hearings in Washington," said former Boston City Councilor Larry DiCara, referring to Mayor Michelle Wu's recent  appearance  before the House Oversight Committee. DiCara served on the council in the 1970s and '80s. He says Trump is not the first president to wield federal funds as a weapon. “President Richard Nixon did not like Massachusetts for a host of reasons,” DiCara said, “one of them being that Jack Kennedy beat him in 1960, the other that in 1972, when he had that enormous landslide, Massachusetts was the only state to vote against him." Nixon went on to shut down the Charlestown Navy Yard, as...

 This was published prior to BOSTON MAYOR WU's testimony before the MAGA GOP &  explains the governing statutes: Republicans ramp up attacks on Boston as Mayor Wu prepares to testify before Congress In two days Boston Mayor Michelle Wu will go before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee in Washington to testify about immigration enforcement in the city. Ahead of the hearing, the committee released a video with footage of President Donald Trump, a copy of a burning U.S. Constitution and an assortment of bleak headlines. “I cannot recall seeing a comparable video released before congressional testimony in the past,” GBH politics reporter Adam Reilly said. “... It almost has a pro-wrestling aesthetic to it.” What about immigration enforcement specifically will lawmakers ask Wu about? Reilly said it’s possible that there will be questions about what Boston Police Commissioner Michael Cox said in an interview with WCVB last month. “I would say it was actually pre...