A journey to seven hearings across seven weeks
The Joint Committee Ways and Means began a series of hearings on February 7 that would take members across Massachusetts to unpack the Governor’s proposal and to inform the legislature’s […]
Unpacking the Governor’s FY25 Budget
Last week, the Joint Committee on Ways and Means kicked off hearings on Governor Healey’s Fiscal Year 2025 budget proposal. (Just as a reminder: The budget process begins with a […]
Closing Out Fiscal Year 2023
On Monday, December 4, the Senate and House passed a conference committee report for a closeout supplemental budget. The $3.1 billion bill provides funds for a number of urgent needs […]
What’s in Team Healey/Driscoll’s Fiscal Year 2024 budget?
The Healey-Driscoll Administration released its $55.5 billion Fiscal Year 2024 budget proposal on March 1. Below we’ve unpacked just some of the funding highlights. Learn more about the budget [...]
Celebrating 100 interns and fellows
In mid-November our team celebrated work with 100 interns and fellows over the past four years I’ve been in office and the team has been working on behalf of our […]
$52.7 billion in the nick of time
On July 18, I voted YES to send the legislature’s final FY23 budget to the Governor’s desk. The FY23 budget process kicked off back in December 2021, when economists told […]