Adam Reilly, “Progressive groups urge Beacon Hill to make anti-Trump push before year’s end,” WGBH, December 11, 2024.
Jonathan Cohn, the political director of the group Progressive Mass, told GBH News that given the way the Legislature usually operates, waiting until the start of a new session next year to begin initiating safeguards would be a mistake.
“Our legislature moves very slowly,” Cohn said. “What we often see, session after session, is that little in the way of legislation beyond the state budget will happen for the first half of the year in a new session … Things so often just get pushed back later and later and later , creating that bottleneck that [then] exists in July of an even-numbered year.
“With Trump 2.0 coming in January, we can’t wait until July of 2026 to be preparing our state for what’ll be happening,” he added. “It’s also far too late, and not nearly as proactive as we should be … to be even waiting until the middle ofnext year.”