A federal judge in Massachusetts temporarily blocked the cuts from taking effect earlier this month in response to separate lawsuits filed by a group of 22 states plus organizations representing universities,

Massachusetts Congressman Jim McGovern weighed in on the cuts and federal freezes happening under President Donald Trump.

The Senate budget chief knocked the possibility of dipping into the state’s more than $8 billion rainy day fund Thursday to address financial woes, but also warned that federal policymaking

The Senate Chair of the Ways and Means committee says Massachusetts' economy is facing impending doom as a result of federal funding cuts.

Twenty-two states, led by Massachusetts ... The legal dispute centers on a Feb. 7 memo from the National Institutes of Health that seeks a 15% cap on what are known as the “indirect” costs ...

Yvonne Hao expressed strong opposition to proposed federal cuts to NIH funding, warning they could threaten the state’s progress in life sciences.

A federal judge in Massachusetts temporarily blocked ... hospitals and research institutions nationwide. The new National Institutes of Health policy would strip research groups of hundreds ...

The new National Institutes of Health policy would strip research groups of hundreds of millions of dollars to cover so-called indirect expenses of studying Alzheimer’s, cancer, heart disease and a host of other illnesses — anything from clinical trials of new treatments to basic lab research that is the foundation for discoveries.