Chris Lisinski, “After a noisy launch, Mass. Senate’s response to Trump is in park,” State House News Service, May 28, 2025.
Progressive groups have been pushing the House and Senate Democratic supermajorities to take quicker action in response to the Trump administration.
Jonathan Cohn, policy director at Progressive Massachusetts, ridiculed the pace of legislative activity this session during the organization’s lobby day on Beacon Hill.
Five months into the term, Cohn said the “Legislature and governor have only signed three bills into law.” That summation prompted an attendee to gasp loudly before Cohn continued.
“Which shows that the kind of urgency that many of you probably feel about the need to act in Massachusetts is not registering yet in the State House, which is the importance of putting that pressure on them,” Cohn said.
