All We’ve Accomplished Together in 2022

Dear Neighbor,

I hope this message finds you and your loved ones safe and healthy during this holiday season. As 2022 comes to a close, I’d like to share a brief recap of our policy work over the past year and highlight some of our collective accomplishments.

My team and I have worked in close partnership with community to advance meaningful policies and budgets that address the hurt and harm in our communities and lay the groundwork for an equitable recovery that leaves no one behind.

Cancelling Student Debt and Lowering Costs for Families

We spent years organizing, mobilizing, and advocating for President Biden to use his executive authority to cancel student debt, and I was thrilled President Biden took historic action earlier this year. President Biden’s plan to cancel up to $20,000 in federal student loan debt will help millions of people make ends meet, build generational wealth, grow their families, purchase homes, and more. This relief is currently on hold due to frivolous lawsuits by Republican officials who are doing everything they can to stop it, even for their own constituents. Rest assured, we won’t stop pressing until our constituents and families across the nation receive this critical relief the President promised.

With communities in Massachusetts and beyond continuing to face layered, overlapping crises, we also fought hard to enact the Inflation Reduction Act, a necessary and long-overdue bill to address the impacts of climate change, reduce prescription drug prices, and lower costs for workers and families. This bill is an important step forward.

Advancing Reproductive Justice

As Co-Chair of the Pro Choice Caucus’ Abortion Rights and Access Task Force, I’ve always sought to advance policies that affirm abortion care as the human right that it is—especially with Republican legislatures and our extremist, far-right majority Supreme Court stopping at nothing to strip away our bodily autonomy. I was proud that the House passed the Women’s Health Protection Act, my bill with Congresswoman Judy Chu, to enshrine abortion rights into federal law, but this legislation was obstructed by Republicans in the Senate due to the Jim Crow filibuster. Despite this devastating setback, I remain as committed as ever to using every tool at our disposal to protect and expand reproductive rights, including working with the White House on executive action.

Delivering for our Communities

After years of advocacy in partnership with cities, towns, grassroots organizations, and advocates in the Massachusetts 7th, my team and I were proud to secure nearly $22 million in federal community project funding to build a more just and equitable district. We visited each municipality to celebrate the Fiscal Year 2022 projects supporting workforce development at La Colaborativa in Chelsea; a new school-based community health center at Randolph High School; tuition-free community college in Boston; green jobs training at the Benjamin Franklin Institute of Technology; culturally responsive learning at Randolph Public Schools; substance use treatment and programming at The Dimock Center in Roxbury; flood resiliency for Everett and Chelsea; separated bike lanes in Cambridge; climate resiliency and community space in Somerville; and math and learning assessment tools for Milton Public Schools.  

And just days ago, President Biden signed the Fiscal Year 2023 budget, which included our 15 projects for the Massachusetts 7th. These projects will support investments in trauma-informed healthcare, workforce development, affordable housing, equity in education, environmental justice, and more. I look forward to delivering these vital resources so communities across the district have the means to not only survive, but to thrive.

Keeping Those Closest to the Pain, Closest to the Power

I’ve always believed that the people closest to the pain should always be closest to the power, driving and informing our policymaking. That’s why I’m so encouraged by the progress we’ve made this year to boost mental health support for survivors of natural disasters, terrorist attacks and other tragedies; end race-based hair discrimination; honor survivors of homicide victims nationwide; help grandfamilies access affordable and age-appropriate housing; expand access to treatment for folks suffering from Long COVID; address the credit issues faced by trans and nonbinary folks who legally change their names; and more. Each of these bills was developed with and informed by those most impacted.

Contact Our Office or Get in Touch via our Website

I am so proud of all we’ve accomplished in 2022 and honored to stand alongside you as we develop policy solutions and continue fighting for the relief our communities in the Massachusetts 7th need and deserve. As always, my team and I are ready to support you in any way we can, so please don't hesitate to give us a call at 617-850-0040 or visit our website at Pressley.House.Gov if we can be of assistance.

Wishing you and your family happy holidays and look forward to what 2023 will bring.

In service and solidarity,


Ayanna Pressley

Member of Congress