On this episode of the Chandler Chat, host Harriette Chandler welcomes Michael Rodrigues, her fellow from the state senate with 30 years experience in MA's legislature, currently serving as the Chair of the Senate Ways and Means Committee, which handles one of the most important tasks in the entire state government: setting fiscal policy and passing a state budget. They discuss how much of the state's budget is dependent on federal funding, and how the Trump administration's cuts to the NIH (National Institutes of Health) will disproportionally affect the Commonwealth, as one of the leading states in higher education, science research and the healthcare industry.
Posted July 1st 2025 10:41pm.