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    December 12, 2025 Thank you for contacting me to express your support for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP). I appreciate your input on this important issue and welcome the opportunity to respond to you directly.   I share your support for food assistance programs, particularly the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), and I oppose the Trump Administration’s attacks on the program. I joined my colleagues in sending a letter to USDA Secretary Brooke Rollins on October 24 urging the agency to use its contingency reserve, and its legal authority to supplement these funds, to fully finance November SNAP benefits while the government remained shut down. Unfortunately, multiple states, including Massachusetts, were forced to pause benefits on November 1 due to USDA’s refusal to distribute this funding and fulfill its legal requirement to do so.   Massachusetts has since resumed benefits following the reopening of the federal government on...

  View in browser   BY  LISA KASHINSKY Presented by UPS STAY TUNED —   Geoff Diehl laid out his ideas for combating high energy costs yesterday. But unless you happen to follow the Republican gubernatorial nominee on social media or stumble across  one  of the  few   articles  that came out of his press conference, you wouldn’t know it. That’s because Diehl has yet to air a television ad  three weeks into the general election. And he appears unlikely to anytime soon. “I’m hoping that obviously the news carries our message,”  Diehl told the handful of reporters assembled outside the State House yesterday.  “ We’re certainly going to be putting a lot of this information out there through our website and through, I’m sure, video of [Wednesday’s] event.” The problem is money, or lack thereof.  Diehl entered the month with less than $17,000 in his campaign coffers and has only raised about $100,000 since the primary, according ...