Tax cuts. Cutting red tape. Deregulation. Making life easier for businesses. Cracking down on free benefits for newly arrived migrants. A pledge to work with the Trump administration. Those are key issues that Massachusetts conservatives have long championed.
"This is one of the reasons why states have got to get to court and take on Donald Trump," Gov. Maura Healey said Tuesday.
Massachusetts is expected to join in legal action as President Trump's administration begins a review of spending that could freeze trillions of government dollars.
Governor Maura Healey’s office rejected a Globe request for documents tied to the order, claiming they are confidential communications between officials and legal counsel.
Governor Healey bans NDAs in employment cases within the executive branch, mandating transparency in settlements.
Gov. Maura Healey slipped a series of tax increases into her fiscal year 2026 budget like applying the sales tax to candy, slapping the tobacco tax on synthetic nicotine produces, imposing an
Massachusetts Senate Minority Leader Bruce Tarr discusses Healey's new budget proposal, state spending and the state auditor's new ability to audit the state legislature.
A coalition pushing a 2026 ballot question that would repeal a gun law Gov. Maura Healey signed last year raised more than $136,000 in four months but drew roughly a third of its cash from a gun
Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey is touting a multi-billion investment plan targeting higher education. On the heels of her State of the Commonwealth address and ahead of her $62 billion budget proposal, Healey unveiled a plan to invest at least $2.5 billion into the state’s public universities and colleges, including its community colleges.
If President Donald Trump puts a 25% tariff on products coming from Canada starting next weekend, as he said this week he is considering, electricity costs in Massachusetts could increase by as much as $200 million a year, Gov. Maura Healey told business leaders Thursday morning.
Massachusetts owes the federal government $2.1 billion because of a mistake made years ago with​ unemployment benefits.
Governor Healey announced a bond bill that will be the largest infrastructure investment in the public higher education system in decades.