In 2025, Healey plans to work with Trump administration. It wasn't always that way. - The Boston Globe

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

57% : "We've needed action on the border for a long time and action on immigration reform.
56% : "And I hope he acts on that, so that we see comprehensive immigration reform, we see a strengthening of the border, and we also see a pathway to citizenship for people who've been here, working, contributing to our economy, paying taxes.
52% : She said she doesn't intend to do the same now, even though tax collections are again running behind, albeit far less dramatically.
47% : Earlier this year, Trump lambasted a bipartisan immigration bill during a time when he wanted to campaign on the problems plaguing the southern border.
45% : In a sit-down interview with the Globe, she said Trump has the "prerogative to pardon" those convicted in the Jan. 6 assault on the US Capitol, expressed hope he would push through legislation overhauling the nation's immigration system, and declined to say whether she is worried for American democracy after warning it was "on the line" as she campaigned for Trump's Democratic opponent, Vice President Kamala Harris.
45% : With Trump now in the White House, Healey said, she's hopeful the political dynamic around immigration will change.
45% : "A year ago, Healey slashed hundreds of millions of dollars in state spending amid a nearly $800 million shortfall in tax revenue.
36% : Healey indicated she's looking for common ground with Trump on immigration.
36% : "Trump has also vowed to pardon those convicted in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, indicating those pardons could be wide-ranging.
25% : "Asked in the interview with the Globe what message it would send if Trump pardoned those convicted, including people from Massachusetts, Healey said that she was not familiar with their specific cases.
21% : Asked if she still fears that American democracy is at risk under Trump, Healey demurred.
19% : "She also said her administration is committed to protecting Massachusetts residents from the mass deportations of undocumented immigrants that Trump has promised, vowing that the State Police would "absolutely not" assist the Trump administration in this action.
7% : While stumping for Harris, Healey called Trump a "con man," and echoed a common refrain among Democrats that democracy itself was on the ballot, a nod to criticisms casting Trump as a threat to the country's democratic norms and institutions.

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