Daily Hampshire Gazette – Healey goes a fine line when working with Trump

Boston – When President Donald Trump passes 100 days in his second term, Governor Maura Healey says that she is still ready to work with him, but so far called his administration a disaster.

“At the beginning I said that I would work with this administration, where she would benefit Massachusetts, our residents, our economy, our state, but it has become clear to me that this administration is not interested in helping people, and they seem to do the opposite every day.

Asked about the event whether these comments lead to changing her position and was no longer willing to work with the president, said Healey: “No, my melody has not changed at all.”

“Every governor in every state wants to have a good work relationship with the federal administration, and that is still the case,” she said. “After 100 days it is also clear that this federal administration finds paths to violate our states to the left and right.”

Governor Gretchen Whitmer from Michigan, a Democrat who has connections to Healey and an increasingly national profile, was recently on the news to maintain a relationship with Trump.

Healey visited Whitmer in Mackinac Island in Michigan in the summer of 2023 together with other governors, and Whitmer visited the State House in Boston last year. The two have also made the group chat known, in which they are with other democratic governors of the female women, where the 19th reported that they have made friendships, and only work relationships.

Whitmer has been under fire from some Democrats because he has thrown a closer relationship with Trump in the past few weeks, last week in the White House and on Tuesday to the President of the Selridge Air National Guard Base in Michigan, where they reported reportedly.

Whitmer was the co-chair of the former Vice President Kamala Harris in 2024 against Trump and criticized the president in the past, but said that she was ready to work with the administration at priority goals-in one thing the guarantee of the Air National Guard basis in Michigan, which delivers tens of thousands of jobs and hundreds of jobs in the states.

National outlets, of which many Whitmer describe as “probable 2028 presidential candidate”, speculated about the political positioning of the Democrat, since democratic governors have tried to decide how much or little or little they work with an administration that they see as damage.

Heley asked about Whitmers developing relationship with Trump said: “I think every governor supports himself for his state. I know I do my best to use Massachusetts,” said Healey.

She continued: “You have to continue to advocate and you have to point out when things don’t go as you should and when your state will harm.”

In a “town hall”, which flows on YouTube on Tuesday evening, Healey joined Democrat governor. JB Pritzker from Illinois, Tim Walz von Minnesota and Kathy Hochul from New York to discuss the first 100 days of Trump’s second term. Healey said he is doing “is much worse than what we saw with Trump One.”

“We still have to stand against him and speak against what he is doing when he does things that hurt people who violate our economy – tanks of our economy – are illegal and unconstitutional,” she said to the national audience.

She was asked how Democrats should think about how to “pack” the party for both the intermediate elections in 2026 and in the 2028 presidential election.

“I see people who get up in this country every day because more and more people are the pain and the episode of Donald Trump and what he is doing. And I only encourage people to stay with it,” said Healey. “It will be a marathon. It will take some time and we just have to stay with it every day.”

Healey encouraged the audience to share contributions that they see on social media about the Trump government that they are important and talk about politics because “politicians are important, but everyday Americans are more important.