The dynamic is on display in the Massachusetts congressional delegation, where Senator Ed Markey and Representative Ayanna Pressley joined their colleagues in condemning the attacks but stopped short of full support for Israel in how it responds.
The funding's inclusion in a Senate appropriations bill signaled more of an appetite in Washington to help shoulder the estimated $4 billion replacement of the Sagamore and Bourne bridges.
Governor Maura Healey’s pledge marks a major escalation in the state’s willingness to devote its own funding to the estimated $4 billion plan to replace the Sagamore and Bourne bridges, the 88-year-old arching structures that traverse the Cape Cod Canal.