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U.S. Representative from Massachusetts
Donald Trump received multiple draft deferments during the Vietnam-era Selective Service process — four for college and a fifth for a medical diagnosis (bone spurs) — and therefore did not serve in Vi...
did not serve in the Vietnam War and obtained multiple Selective Service deferments during the 1960s, including a 1968 medical deferment for "bone spurs" that kept him out of service . While contempor...
Several members of Congress have publicly said they would stop accepting AIPAC-related donations or return money in 2024–2025; named examples in reporting include Deborah Ross, Valerie Foushee, Morgan...
AIPAC’s PAC gave more than $12.7 million to members of Congress and federal candidates in the first half of 2025, and the group’s PAC spent over $55.2 million in the 2023–24 cycle, with even larger ou...
Since 2024, Democrats have offered a spectrum of proposals to curb Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), ranging from full abolition to targeted operational reforms and funding limits; notable in...
Controversies about AIPAC’s funding and financial practices have surfaced repeatedly in recent reporting and advocacy work: critics point to heavy funding from billionaires and corporate executives an...
A handful of Democrats publicly explained their votes on in immediate post‑vote statements: some, like , framed their opposition as a refusal to bankroll what they called a lawless (found on his congr...
A sizable cohort of House Democrats — reported as 153 members — voted YEA on when passed the measure 341–79 on January 14, 2026, but publicly available reporting in the provided sources does not conta...
Multiple episodes have prompted members of Congress to publicly demand a president resign or withdraw, but those calls are tied to distinct events and different presidents: more than , while a separat...
AIPAC’s financial support to politicians is part of a large, well-documented pattern of pro‑Israel PAC giving, but the supplied material does not provide a clear, itemized dollar-for-dollar comparison...
According to the assembled analyses, there were , named in the primary roster: two from Maine, nine from Massachusetts, one from Vermont, two from New Hampshire, and two from Rhode Island . The underl...
Criticism or political distancing from AIPAC has recently involved a range of current and former U.S. politicians across the ideological spectrum — from progressive Democrats who publicly reject AIPAC...
Massachusetts has nine U.S. congressional districts in the current map used since the 2022 elections; commonly listed incumbents as of January 2025 include Richard Neal (1st), Jim McGovern (2nd), Lori...
Available reporting shows AIPAC-affiliated political spending in the 2024 cycle exceeded $100 million when combining its PAC and the United Democracy Project, and investigators and activists allege ad...
Massachusetts’ federal delegation in the House is entirely Democratic and currently has nine members; the state also has two Democratic U.S. senators (total nine House members and two senators) . Stat...
A search of the supplied reporting finds no clear, sourced instances of lawmakers who publicly returned or explicitly pledged after 2024 to refuse donations; the available documents describe nationwid...
Yes — a growing number of members and candidates have publicly refused AIPAC-affiliated PAC money during primaries, motivated mainly by progressive backlash against the lobbying group’s influence on U...
Several U.S. politicians have been criticized for ties to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), and in 2024–2025 a visible political shift saw Democrats and some Republicans distancing...
Massachusetts lost one U.S. House seat after the 2010 census and has held since 2013; the delegation has been in the House for much of the past decade, while the state’s two Senate seats have remained...
Massachusetts sent to the U.S. House of Representatives for the 2025 Congress: Richard Neal (1st), Jim McGovern (2nd), Lori Trahan (3rd), Jake Auchincloss (4th), Katherine Clark (5th), Seth Moulton (6...