June 24, 2025

Friends,

I am back in Washington for another eventful week. While we continue the work of Congress, including important hearings in the House Small Business Committee and votes on the House Floor, I am closely monitoring the situation in the Middle East. 

I have always remained steadfast in my conviction that this Iranian regime can never get a nuclear weapon. But I have a number of basic questions that deserve answers from President Donald Trump and his administration. Read them and learn more here.

Yesterday, I sent a letter to President Donald Trump asserting congressional authority over war powers and declaring support for a War Powers Resolution. Learn more from WMUR here. 

There are good reasons why the United States Constitution gives Congress an important role to play in questions of war and peace. I am fighting to make sure that Congress is playing that role and keeping our troops and the American people safe.

I also wanted to take a moment to give you an update on my work last week, traveling across New Hampshire, from important stops in Keene, Cornish, Claremont, and Hanover, to an amazing town hall hosted by WMUR.

You can watch my Conversation with the Community, hosted by WMUR, here.

For real-time updates on my work fighting for you, I hope you’ll follow me on Facebook, Instagram, Threads, Bluesky, Twitter, and YouTube.

FIGHTING TO PROTECT YOUR HEALTHCARE FROM GOP CUTS

Last week, the Senate unveiled its version of the GOP’s Big, Bad Budget Bill, which proposes massive cuts to healthcare and critical programs you and your family rely on, ensuring the same winners and losers as the devastating House version. Let me be clear: I’m a hard no on the biggest cuts to healthcare and food assistance in American history to pay for massive tax breaks for billionaires and big corporations. 

The fight to protect Medicaid and lifesaving healthcare is ongoing, and I will never give up.

The cost of GOP cuts to healthcare and Medicaid is not hypothetical. They will be devastating to New Hampshire families like Lucas’.

It was amazing to host Lucas and his family in our Washington, D.C. office.

Lucas was born five weeks early with Down Syndrome and had several serious medical complications. Lucas is covered by Medicaid, which helps supplement his healthcare costs on top of private health insurance. Without it, his family worries that Lucas would need to be placed in a residential facility, likely located out of state.

We cannot let that happen. Lucas and his family are why I am more committed to this fight than ever.

To all of our nurses and healthcare providers, thank you for all that you do to keep our communities healthy. 

Valley Regional Hospital in Claremont is a critical access hospital that is absolutely essential to connecting people across Sullivan County with lifesaving care.

Last week, I met with the extraordinary team at VRH, together with key community healthcare partners, and heard first-hand about the devastating impact that GOP Medicaid cuts would have on their work and the hardworking people they serve.

Learn more about my visit and VRH’s innovative workforce housing development, made possible by federal funding, from WCAX here. 

From essential workforce housing to lifesaving services, I am proud to stand with our healthcare providers to protect the federal funding that makes their critical mission possible.

Your stories are why we are still in this fight to protect Medicaid, SNAP, and so much more. Share your story here.

Last week, I also visited Nashua Soup Kitchen and Shelter and sat down with local leaders and advocates, including from New Hampshire Food Bank and Grow Nashua, to discuss how the GOP budget bill makes the biggest cuts to SNAP in American history, creates barriers to services for families in need, and devastates Granite Staters already facing food insecurity.

Partners like these are why we are still in this fight and why I will never give up.

TACKLING NEW HAMPSHIRE’S CHILD CARE CRISIS

Hardworking people across New Hampshire are struggling to access the affordable, quality childcare they need. In Congress, I’m working with every tool I have to expand access to affordable care.  

Our kids are our future – we must ensure they have the care they need to thrive.

Last week, I visited Ready Set Grow Childcare in Claremont, a very special community, and had a wide-ranging conversation about how we can work together to tackle challenges and seize opportunities to deliver real progress – from affordability to access – for Claremont and for New Hampshire.

During my town hall with WMUR, I was asked about how we can tackle our child care crisis. Watch my full answer and learn more here.

The child care crisis in New Hampshire is costing our economy millions of dollars in lost wages. Thousands of hardworking people — mostly women — are forced to make a painful choice that no one should have to make and leave the workforce because they can’t afford child care. 

This isn’t right. And it’s why I’m working to tackle this crisis head-on and bring more providers to New Hampshire.

New Hampshire’s Boys and Girls Clubs are fostering the next generation of leaders. 

Last week, I had the opportunity to spend the afternoon with the students and staff who make the Boys and Girls Club of Greater Nashua such an incredible, supportive community and place for children to gather and grow. 

I’m proud to be fighting for and working alongside the Boys and Girls Clubs across New Hampshire that are changing lives and inspiring the next generation of leaders across our state every day.

FIGHTING FOR NEW HAMPSHIRE’S SMALL BUSINESSES

From Hudson to Hanover, I am proud to fight for New Hampshire’s small businesses. 

We would not be who we are without the small businesses that drive our communities and economy. 

Small businesses are the beating heart of New Hampshire’s economy, and that was on full display Monday morning in Hudson as WH Bagshaw Company, Inc. cut the ribbon on a new 55,600-square-foot facility. 

This sixth-generation family-owned small business was America’s first pin manufacturer and traces its roots back 155 years. Today, WH Bagshaw Company remains forever young because of the energy, resilience, and creativity that this amazing team brings to their work and our community every day. 

In a truly uncertain and challenging time for hardworking people across our state, I am proud to fight for small businesses like WH Bagshaw in Congress and on the House Committee on Small Business.

It was great to meet with Lou's Restaurant & Bakery, Indigo, Six South St Hotel, Boloco, Von Bargen's Fine Diamonds & Artisan Jewelry, Red Kite Candies, My Brigadeiro, Still North Books & Bar, and Sawtooth Kitchen.

Last week in Hanover, I met with some incredible small business owners and employees and heard firsthand about the challenges they are facing, from President Trump’s chaotic trade wars to every front of our affordability crisis: housing, healthcare, childcare, and beyond. 

Our state and our communities are stronger thanks to our innovative small businesses.

Proud to bring their voices and priorities to Congress on the House Committee on Small Business.

Wonderful to be with Naughty Nellies ice cream, from Andover, NH!

Last week, Laconia hosted the 102nd Bike Week! Over the past century, Bike Week has been an amazing tradition for friends and riders and a key economic driver for our state. It brings more than $100 million to New Hampshire every year, and is a critical opportunity for small businesses from Nashua to the North Country.

In my conversations with the small businesses and vendors at this year’s bike week, I heard about how devastating the impacts of President Trump's trade wars have been. 

Because of President Trump’s trade war against our neighbor and ally, Canada, this year’s Bike Week saw very few Canadian riders. 

It’s past time for Congress to do its job and check President Trump’s chaotic, unlawful, and costly trade wars. Hardworking people are paying the price. That’s why I’m fighting to restore sanity to tariff policy and lower costs. 

I signed a petition to bring an end to President Trump’s trade wars, filed an amicus brief challenging President Donald Trump’s unlawfully imposed tariffs under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA), am supporting legislation to return the power to levy tariffs back to Congress, and helped introduce the Small Business Liberation Act to exempt more than 34 million small businesses in New Hampshire and across the country from President Trump’s tariffs.

Proud to advocate for economic growth and opportunity for New Hampshire.

Safe, reliable, and affordable transportation is a lifeline for hardworking people across New Hampshire and a key driver of our state’s economic growth. Although we know that for every $1 we invest in public transportation, we generate around a $5 return, New Hampshire ranks #49 among all 50 states in America in our public transportation investments. We can and must do better. 

That’s why, last week, I convened a fantastic group of leaders in Nashua for a conversation about the path ahead on passenger rail.

Commuter rail is a key part of this conversation, and Nashua is uniquely situated to help lead the charge. Progress really depends on close coordination and partnership across our state at every level of government — local, state, and federal. That’s what I’m working towards.

EXPANDING VETERAN ACCESS TO HEALTHCARE, BRINGING A FULL-SERVICE VA HOSPITAL TO NEW HAMPSHIRE

We have a sacred obligation to the tens of thousands of women and men across New Hampshire who served our country in uniform. They put their lives on the line to keep us safe, and it’s my mission in Congress to ensure these brave American heroes have access to the full range of healthcare they need.

Watch my remarks to the Appropriations Committee advocating for a full-service VA hospital here.

That’s why it is so unacceptable that New Hampshire is the only state in the contiguous United States without a full-service VA hospital.

I will always fight for New Hampshire’s veterans in Congress.

Last week, I was proud to take steps to change that by helping to introduce the Veterans Full-Service Care and Access Act, legislation that would require the VA to operate, at minimum, one full-service Veterans Health Administration hospital within each state in the contiguous 48 states.

PROTECTING OUR NATIONAL PARKS

I had a fantastic visit last week in Cornish at the Saint-Gaudens National Historical Park.

Learn more about Saint-Guadens here.

This New Hampshire treasure is America’s National Park for the Arts. I saw once again, first-hand, how right Ken Burns was to say that America’s national parks are rooted in an idea as American as the Declaration of Independence. 

There are so many incredible exhibits to see, including this statue of Abraham Lincoln.

Special places like Saint-Gaudens should be preserved for everyone because they belong to us all. I’ve never been more motivated to fight to protect our parks and the patriotic women and men of our National Park Service. I was a hard no on the GOP’s Big, Bad Budget that would cut hundreds of millions in funding from the National Park Service, and I will never give up this fight. 

HOW CAN WE HELP

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If you have been impacted by – or are concerned you may have been impacted by – a recent change in a federal policy or program, I want to hear from you. Please share your story here.

If you have witnessed potential wrongdoing under the Trump Administration, please report it to the House Oversight Committee here.  

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I want to end this week’s newsletter with a reflection on Juneteenth. It was an honor to begin Juneteenth at the rededication ceremony of the African Burying Ground Memorial Park. 

Watch my remarks at the rededication ceremony on Juneteenth here. 

Juneteenth marks the end of America’s original sin of slavery and the beginning of the work that we can never stop doing together: making the promise of America real for every American.


Thanks for reading, and please stay in touch!

Sincerely,

Maggie Goodlander
Member of Congress

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