POLITICO Massachusetts Playbook: A call and a delayed response
By Kelly Garrity TAKING ON TRUMP — More than two months into President Donald Trump’s second term and staring down a bevy of potential federal funding cuts, state Senate Democrats are slowly starting to map out their resistance. But their new initiative, “Response 2025,” isn’t doing much to placate the progressives who have been calling for aggressive action from the state to counter the seismic changes being rammed through in Washington. Flanked by members of her leadership team, with a mural of Revolutionary War-era lawyer James Otis behind her, Senate President Karen Spilka announced the plan she said would help protect residents and defend “our values.” The Framingham Democrat taske d Sen. Cindy Friedman, who chairs the Committee on Steering and Policy, with meeting with fellow Senate chairs and coordinating a policy response to some of the federal cuts. “There's not one bill or action that we can pass that will fully cover us,” F...