Michelle Wu has climbed over Maura Healey, Elizabeth Warren and different liberals to turn into the brand new chief of the Trump resistance right here in Massachusetts and throughout the nation.
The Boston mayor is now the face of preventing again towards President Trump and his insurance policies, a job everybody else needs however no one else has been capable of seize but.
Healey is a distant second and Warren is without doubt one of the progressive also-rans relating to standing up towards the Trump administration.
Even White Home and Justice Division officers have seen, focusing on Wu repeatedly and cementing her place because the primary menace to the administration’s political messaging.
However the notoriety comes with penalties, because the feds are transferring in on Boston and Massachusetts to nab unlawful immigrant criminals and threatening to chop federal funding on schooling and different applications.
Whereas Wu’s star could also be rising, it comes with ache for Boston residents.
“I made a promise at CPAC that I used to be going to Boston after studying about quite a few unlawful alien baby rapists strolling the streets of Boston and Massachusetts,” border czar Tom Homan wrote on Monday. “ICE needed to discover and arrest these unlawful alien rapists as a result of Massachusetts and Boston are sanctuaries that refuse to cooperate with ICE. They might slightly launch these animals again into the neighborhood slightly than honor ICE detainers or notify ICE when they’re scheduled to be launched. Mayor Wu later testified that I used to be mendacity. Properly, I traveled to Boston final Tuesday, as promised, and we kicked off a five-day operation with ICE, FBI, ATF, DEA, US Marshals and DSS. These unbelievable women and men arrested a complete of 370 unlawful aliens in Boston and surrounding areas. A majority of the 370 unlawful aliens in Boston and surrounding areas.”
“I’d like to increase my condolences to the nice folks of Boston,” Lawyer Common Pam Bondi wrote earlier this month. “Mayor Wu’s actions are callous and an insult to legislation enforcement throughout America. On account of the mayor’s resolution to facet with public security threats over law-abiding residents, DOJ can have no alternative however to extend efforts within the metropolis of Boston.”
Immigration isn’t the one space Trump officers are focusing on. The Republican president’s efforts to dismantle the Division of Training might lead to Boston shedding $100 million in federal funding, in line with native officers.
That would go away Wu scrambling to fill what’s about 6% of the varsity system’s finances.
However Wu is now positioned to assert that Trump’s actions are retaliatory, permitting her to grab excessive floor within the high-stakes showdown.
Wu has left Warren within the mud because the primary Trump goal. The Massachusetts senator has been powerless to cease Trump’s actions within the Senate and isn’t a menace. She is extra of a punching bag to Trump.
Healey is the quantity two liberal in Massachusetts behind Wu, however has been extra involved with the migrant disaster and finances deficits than preventing again towards the administration.
Rep. Ayanna Pressley – as soon as considered a progressive chief within the nation as one of many “Squad” – has been marginalized as an extremist.
The remainder of the Democrats, even nationally like Sen. Bernie Sanders and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, are effectively behind Wu relating to being the face of the resistance.
Wu has refused to compromise with the Trump administration, displaying herself to be a powerful opponent who received’t again down.
That is considerably of a metamorphosis for her. Wu was seen as timid in the beginning of the migrant disaster, staying within the background whereas Healey seized a Roxbury neighborhood rec middle as a migrant shelter.
Now her political consultants are telling her to combat and defend town – as evidenced in her feisty State of the Metropolis deal with, which drew the eye of the White Home and catapulted her to the nationwide stage. Might nationwide workplace be in her future?
