WBUR — “'Uncharted waters': Boston finds itself in the Trump administration's crosshairs,”
'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...