Edward J. Markey

Congratulations to the UMass Boston Class of 2026! It was an honor to serve as your commencement speaker today. In uncertain times, your generation is stepping forward with courage, compassion, a...

This Memorial Day weekend, families should have been focused on seeing loved ones—not getting hit with junk fees just to sit next to their children on a flight. I passed a law to stop these family...

Trump’s “weaponization fund” and ban on future IRS audits is his latest impeachable offense: using the machinery of government and billions in taxpayer dollars to reward allies, pay off insurrectio...

Massachusetts and the entire country have lost a giant of American politics with the passing of Congressman Barney Frank. His legacy of reform and consumer protection reaches from the Wall Street t...

Honored to celebrate the opening of La CASA today in Villa Victoria—the largest Latino cultural center in New England. La CASA will be a new home for art, activism, and opportunity. A place for co...

Sen. Ed Markey (D-MA) explains why Trump’s Art of the Deal is really the Art of the Steal.

Nurses are the backbone of our health care system. This National Nurses Week, we honor the more than 5 million who show up for us every day. I’m fighting for more funding for recruitment and traini...

The Trump EPA puts the value of a human life at zero dollars in their rulemakings to make it easier for them to pollute. They put a cost on corporate expenses, but not on asthma, heart disease, or ...

The Trump administration talks about trillions of savings for big corporations—but ignores the costs facing Americans at their kitchen tables every day because of their rollbacks.

Trump wants to cut a quarter billion dollars for worker protection programs that help keep you safe on the job. He already gave billionaire CEOs a tax cut—now he wants to sacrifice your health to t...

Our kids deserve more investment, not less, but Trump wants to gut K-12 funding by $8.5 billion. His budget gets an F for bankrupting the future.

Trump wants a $1.5 trillion slush fund for his “Department of War.” That’s eight times what he wants to spend on health and education combined. Americans want health care—not warfare.

At a time when HHS Secretary RFK Jr. is demonizing vaccines and measles cases are surging, Trump wants to cut $356 MILLION from the agency responsible for preventing and responding to health emerge...

Home electricity prices are up 13% since Trump took office. His solution? Eliminate the program that helps people pay for their heating and cooling bills. A real solution? Passing my Heating a...

Trump wants to eliminate an anti-poverty program helping 600,000 people in Massachusetts with career development, early childhood education, and housing every year. Nationwide, it costs just 0.0005...

The USCIS pause is putting Iranian students and workers at risk of losing status and being forced back to Iran—where they could face persecution from the brutal Islamic Republic regime or renewed c...

Republicans just blocked my amendment to lower electricity costs for working people. Instead of providing economic relief for everyday Americans, MAGA Republicans want to provide billions for ICE a...

NIH is the world’s research engine—driving development of treatments and cures for everything from cancer to rare diseases. Trump wants to cut $5 billion from these life-saving breakthroughs, but w...

I celebrated Earth Day by giving @SenMarkeyMemes one of our office’s exclusive bill trading cards — including a custom Massachusetts-themed card for being our Senate co-lead on the Youth Climate Le...

Happy Earth Day! 56 years after the first Earth Day, big polluters still hold too much power — but we’re not backing down. That’s why we’re introducing the Youth Climate Leadership Act to ensure y...