Eve Zuckoff and Walter Wuthmann, “Mayor Wu’s week in the crosshairs of the feds,” WBUR, June 7, 2025.

“Mayor Michelle Wu understands that hiding under the bed and thinking that they won’t come after you isn’t a viable strategy,” said Jonathan Cohn, policy director of Progressive Massachusetts. “Anything that you can do to slow them down and make those attacks more difficult is what the city should be doing, not trying to avoid attention.”

In his view, it’s good policy and good politics; “show fight,” as he said.