Karen Spilka and Mass. Senate will ‘tackle’ Trump. Yeah. Proper.

President Donald Trump should be deeply troubled lately.

No, not over something Chinese language Communist Get together chief Xi Jinping has mentioned about invading Taiwan.

And it has nothing to do with Vladimir Putin snarling over Trump-sponsored ceasefire talks in Ukraine, or the world response to tariffs.

Neither does it concern the joke justice warriors of the progressive Democrat U.S. district court docket judges ganging up on him to stifle his sweeping initiatives starting from the deportation of felony unlawful aliens to reducing USAID.

These developments he can deal with. Taking up the Massachusetts state Senate is a distinct matter.

What absolutely will need to have Trump shaking in his boots was final week’s vow by Democrat state Senate President Karen Spilka to face as much as him and his marketing campaign to chop fraud, waste abuse in federal authorities applications.

Thus far, Trump has solely been compelled to cope with assaults from Massachusetts U.S. Sens. Elizabeth Warren and Ed Markey together with the 9 ineffective Massachusetts members of the U.S. Home, all Democrats.

Warren has even coupled with Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders to go after Trump for allegedly rewarding billionaires on the expense of the working class. The pair of progressives used to assault millionaires till they grew to become millionaires themselves. They then upped their recreation to billionaires.

Anyway, if anybody is aware of about FWA in authorities it’s the Democrat-controlled Massachusetts Senate, which underneath Spilka is combating tooth and nail to chase away an audit by state Auditor Diana DiZoglio, although the voters overwhelmingly accepted of it on the poll field.

DiZoglio might start by auditing the best way Spilka makes use of state funds to decorate the salaries of senators who’re loyal to her by appointing them chairs of committees that generally don’t even meet. DiZoglio served unhappily within the Senate earlier than she was elected auditor.

As an illustration, Spilka at a lame press convention final week named Sen. Cindy Friedman of Arlington to move a coordinated committee referred to as Response 2025 to cope with Trump price range cuts.

Friedman, the chair of the Senate Steering and Coverage Committee, will work with different committees to guide the state “by means of the uncertainty of federal motion” by Trump.

If nothing else, the Senate is aware of how you can create committees. And Spilka’s creation of Response 2025 is nothing greater than a public relations gimmick to appease left wing loonies accusing the Democrat-controlled Legislature of not “standing up” to Trump—as if the Legislature had the ability to take action.

And Spilka’s press convention was conveniently held simply days earlier than right this moment’s anti-Trump “Fingers Off Boston” rally on Boston Frequent protesting “the Trump/Musk assault on democracy” and vowing “by no means to bow to tyrant kings or fascism.”

“We the Individuals of Massachusetts will come collectively to inform the corrupt, merciless, chaotic tyrants in D.C. fingers off Boston,” the group’s flyer mentioned.

It additionally got here simply after the announcement that the Trump administration had terminated $106 million in residual COVID-19 funds that Massachusetts faculties anticipated.

Gov. Maura Healey, a very long time Trump critic, condemned the choice, as she has different federal price range cuts. However she was not on the Spilka press convention, nor did she ship a consultant.

Additionally absent was Home Speaker Ron Mariano or anybody else from the state Home of Representatives.

Indicative of what a con job all of it was, is the truth that no member of the state’s delegation to Congress, who deal every day with the Trump administration, attended — not Warren or Markey or any of the 9 hapless members of the U.S. Home.

So, it was left to Spilka and the Massachusetts state Senate to “tackle” Trump. Yeah. Proper. She’ll present him.

It’s not identified if Friedman will likely be paid further for her new “duties,” however she in all probability will. Final 12 months Friedman, with the legislators’ base pay of $73,655, was paid an extra $102,340 for chairing one committee and vice chairing one other for a complete of $175,995.