The Massachusetts Fiscal Alliance today blasted Beacon Hill lawmakers for their plan to override Governor Maura Healey’s extremely modest budget vetoes, warning that the legislature is making a bad fiscal situation even worse.

Spending jumps 6 percent while local aid stagnates, gimmicks abound, and fiscal warnings go ignored

With tonight’s final passage of the state Senate’s FY2026 budget, which passed 38-2, the Massachusetts Fiscal Alliance is calling out senators for greenlighting the largest budget in state history while continuing to ignore the state’s deepening affordability crisis. 

Massachusetts is in a tough financial spot.

The Massachusetts Fiscal Alliance sharply criticized the $61.4 billion budget plan released today by the Massachusetts House of Representatives, calling it a reckless proposal, an inadequate response to the state’s growing financial uncertainty, and completely inconsistent with the rhetoric Beacon Hill leadership has been using regarding the future of federal funding.

New Taxes, Higher Spending, and No Relief for Fleeing Residents

Several Reform Minded Amendments Shot Down by Speaker

The Massachusetts Fiscal Alliance commented on Speaker Ron Mariano’s proposed FY2025 budget, his fourth as Speaker, which has a whopping price tag of $57.9 billion. 

MassFiscal wants to make sure you saw the latest budget put out by Governor Maura Healey. In short, revenues are down but spending is up.

Spending Up as Revenues Decline and Taxpayers Flee to Tax Friendly States