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During a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on Wednesday, Sen. Jacky Rosen (D-NV) clashed with Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth over the alleged involvement of far-right activist Laura Loomer in personnel decisions.
Boston is experiencing what some say is an unprecedented attack from the federal government.
"City government should be spending money on plowing snow and ... making it safe to walk downtown — not playing defense for a whole bunch of hearings in Washington," said former Boston City Councilor Larry DiCara, referring to Mayor Michelle Wu's recent appearance before the House Oversight Committee.
DiCara served on the council in the 1970s and '80s. He says Trump is not the first president to wield federal funds as a weapon.
“President Richard Nixon did not like Massachusetts for a host of reasons,” DiCara said, “one of them being that Jack Kennedy beat him in 1960, the other that in 1972, when he had that enormous landslide, Massachusetts was the only state to vote against him."
Nixon went on to shut down the Charlestown Navy Yard, as well as a 58-acre military facility in South Boston — moves considered by some as retaliation against the city.
But some political observers say that's nothing compared to the pain the current administration could bring over Boston's immigration stance.
“ Who knows what will happen?” DiCara added. “These are uncharted waters.”
So far, Trump officials have promised to bring "hell” to Boston by means of immigration enforcement. They've floated the sale of federal buildings here and briefly fired key JFK Presidential Library employees. GOP members of Congress called the mayors of Boston, Chicago, New York City and Denver to D.C. for a hostile hearing on city policies that limit police cooperation with ICE.
One Republican on the House Oversight Committee, Rep. Anna Paulina Luna of Florida, accused the mayors of being “ideologically misled” and formally recommended criminal investigations of the mayors by the U.S. Department of Justice.
Luna's letter, obtained by WBUR, cites "Wu's enforcement of
sanctuary city policies, specifically the Boston Trust Act, which may constitute violations of federal immigration law." (Luna's office sent similar letters regarding the mayors of Denver and Chicago. New York City Mayor Eric Adams, whose federal corruption charges were dropped by the DOJ last month, was spared.)
The day after the oversight hearing, the Small Business Administration announced it would be moving its offices out of "sanctuary cities" — Boston, New York City, Denver, Chicago, Atlanta and Seattle.
On Thursday, Boston again appeared on the radar of the Trump administration, this time with a communiqué from the newly-assembled Federal Task Force to Combat Antisemitism. The task force announced that officials wanted to "engage" with officials in Boston — as well as New York City, Los Angeles and Chicago — to discuss their responses to antisemitic incidents at schools and on college campuses.
The slings and arrows aimed at Boston sparked some grassroots outrage. Videos on TikTok with the hashtag #bostontok garnered millions of views, punching back at the border czar's "bringing hell" threat.
The attacks on "sanctuary cities" date back to Trump's first presidency, when he targeted cities that limit cooperation with ICE. While campaigning for re-election, Trump doubled down, promising to "immediately ban all sanctuary cities in the United States” once elected.
That message resonated with Louis Murray, of Boston's West Roxbury neighborhood. He’s with a group called Bostonians Against Sanctuary Cities and he said it’s fair game for the president to withhold federal money from cities that don't comply with the administration's immigration requests.
“ I'm all for President Trump using the power of the presidency, the unified power of the presidential branch, to make Boston come to heel,” he said.
Murray said city officials should seek a détente with Trump and reverse the Boston Trust Act, which limits cooperation with ICE to criminal matters.
“ I think the real concern that Mayor Wu and the City Council should have is what would be the impact of the entire conceptual wielding of power by the Trump administration against the city of Boston? What will be the economic impact? The safety impact? The impact on our schools?” Murray said.
Boston's Trust Act took effect in 2014, when President Barack Obama, a Democrat, was notching a record number of deportations. That happened largely with the assistance of local and state police in other parts of the country, which had signed on to assist federal immigration officers.
The Boston City Council decided local resources should not be used for civil immigration enforcement. But when ICE seeks a detainer for someone with a criminal warrant, city officials say police do comply.
And now, some city councilors are considering ways to expand the policy — or at least further clarify it.
This week, the council held a hearing with a panel of four immigrants’ rights activists to discuss how the policy could be improved. Advocates said the policy could narrow the types of crimes that reach the threshold for cooperation with ICE. They also suggested the city could better communicate to residents what the Trust Act entails.
Amy Grunder, with the MIRA Coalition, told the council there are more than 50 municipalities in Massachusetts with rules similar to Boston’s Trust Act.
“Boston is a true leader in its commitment to its hard-working immigrant communities, and an example to our 350 cities and towns in Massachusetts, to our state Legislature and to the nation,” she said.
Despite threats that Wu and other big city mayors could face charges, some legal experts say those claims are baseless.
“ I think these threats of criminal prosecution are empty threats,” said Ahilan Arulanantham, a professor at the UCLA School of Law.
And he said it’s well-established that the feds can’t tell cities how to handle local policing.
The more open question, Arulanantham added, is whether the president has the authority to withhold funds from cities where he disagrees with local policy. Attempts to deprive cities of funding under the first Trump administration were struck down by lower court decisions. But a New York Appeals panel decided in favor of the administration in early 2020.
Unlike more established law that bars the “commandeering” of local police, Arulanantham said, the U.S. Supreme Court has yet to tackle the practice of withholding funds over immigration enforcement.
”On that side of things, there's more play in the joints,” he said.
Thomas Whalen, who teaches American political history at Boston University, said Trump’s retaliation strategy make him unlike any president before him.
“Grover Cleveland, he lost a second term bid right after his first term, but then he gained it back,” Whalen said. “He didn't take the kind of revenge tour that Trump is embarking on right now.”
Whalen said Trump is attacking reforms made under the “progressive era” of American government, which led to benefits people now take for granted, like Social Security and Medicare. And he said cuts in broader funding for things like education and scientific research make the Boston area particularly vulnerable.
“Higher ed, the medical establishment — we have the best in the world,” Whalen said. “We're basically on the edge of tearing that down.”
Whalen says political favoritism is nothing new in American history. But in recent decades, Massachusetts has navigated Republican administrations relatively well, thanks to powerful Democrats like Ted Kennedy, a longtime senator, and Thomas “Tip” O’Neill, former House speaker.
Those were different times. With the Democrats in the minority in Congress and struggling to stop any of Trump's actions, the heat is now coming directly at cities like Boston, pitting mayors against the president of the United States.
This segment aired on March 13, 2025.
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Former President Donald Trump on Sunday night shared a post on his Truth Social platform that accused "liberal Jews" of voting to "destroy" America and Israel.
“Just a quick reminder for liberal Jews who voted to destroy America & Israel because you believed in false narratives!" said the post, which came on the weekend of Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year. "Let’s hope you learned from your mistake & make better choices moving forward!”
The post touted Trump's decision to relocate the U.S. embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, among other moves.
It is unclear what prompted his post. The Trump campaign did not immediately respond to NBC News' request for comment. Prominent Jewish advocacy groups, including the American Israel Public Affairs Committee and J Street, also did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Michelle Terris, the founder of JEXIT, an organization that says its mission is to "educate and encourage" Jewish Americans to exit the Democratic Party, confirmed to NBC News that Trump's post came from a JEXIT flyer posted Sunday on Instagram.
Terris said it was her organization’s understanding that Trump shared the post to his Truth Social account after a meeting with board member Siggy Flicker last weekend. She also clarified that the flyer from the organization was originally posted in 2018 and has been used for years.
“We believe he shared it on Truth Social because he is so proud of his record of support for the Jewish community in America and for the State of Israel,” Terris said.
“We are thankful to the former President for sharing it on his Truth Social account,” she added. “As our post states, there has been no greater friend to American Jews and the State of Israel than fmr. President Donald J. Trump and we are deeply concerned that many Liberal Jews in America do not recognize the fmr. President’s history of accomplishments in supporting our people and instead vote blinding for the Democratic Party.”
Other groups, however, said Trump’s post plays into antisemitic tropes that American Jews have dual loyalties to the U.S. and Israel. The content of the post also mirrors his past remarks claiming broad support in Israel for his policies, in contrast with many Jewish voters in the U.S., who often vote Democratic.
Reached for comment, the American Jewish Committee pointed to a tweet it posted Monday that condemned Trump's post: "Claiming that American Jews who did not vote for Mr. Trump voted to destroy America and Israel is deeply offensive and divisive."
"As we approach one year until the next election, we urge political candidates from the top to the bottom of the ballot to avoid incendiary rhetoric."
Anti-Defamation League CEO Jonathan Greenblatt also decried Trump's post in a statement, saying "it is dangerous and wrong to suggest an entire segment of the Jewish population voted to destroy America and Israel."
'Whether or not it’s intentional, President Trump is playing into conspiracy theories about dual loyalty here," he said. "Even worse, this is happening on one of the holiest days of the Jewish calendar, Rosh Hashanah. Even as an organization that supported many of these policy decisions, ADL doesn’t believe that our community needs to be lectured about how to vote.”
Trump faced similar backlash last year for saying that Jews in the U.S. needed to “get their act together” and “appreciate” Israel “before it is too late.”
“No President has done more for Israel than I have. Somewhat surprisingly, however, our wonderful Evangelicals are far more appreciative of this than the people of the Jewish faith, especially those living in the U.S.,” Trump wrote in a Truth Social post last year.
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