Senator Hassan Emphasizes Importance of Protecting Granite Staters’ Hard-Earned Benefits, Health Care, and Jobs During Events Across NH
NEW HAMPSHIRE – Last week, U.S. Senator Maggie Hassan hosted events across New Hampshire to discuss the threats and challenges facing Granite Staters. These events included community gatherings and discussions on the Senator’s work to protect students’ personal information following the recent PowerSchool cyberattack, the devastating impact of the Trump Administration’s NIH federal funding cuts on critical research and clinical trials, and the Administration’s ongoing attacks on Social Security and Medicare.
In case you missed it, check out some of what Granite Staters are reading about Senator Hassan’s events:
WMUR: Senator Hassan Pushing Back Against Plan That Could Close Littleton Social Security Office
HOST: Senator Maggie Hassan is trying to protect access to Social Security in the Granite State. Hassan is pushing back against a plan by the Trump Administration to close the Social Security office in Littleton, while requiring people receiving Social Security benefits to go into offices more frequently. Today, she held a meeting with seniors in Littleton to discuss those plans.
HASSAN: It's just really important for people to continue one on one to talk to each other and to talk in our communities about what's happening and raise our voices.
HOST: If the Littleton office closed, the next closest Social Security office in New Hampshire would be nearly 100 miles away.
Caledonian Record: Sen. Hassan Visits Littleton Amid Planned Social Security Office Closure
By Robert Blechl
Mounting anxiety about the Trump Administration’s plan to shutter the Social Security office in Littleton has prompted a community visit by U.S. Sen. Maggie Hassan, D-NH, who on Friday met with North Country seniors to hear their stories and concerns and explore what can be done to avert closure.
[…] “Every senator in every state in this country has constituents who depend on Social Security,” she said. “All of our states have rural areas. The more people speak out to their senators, regardless of party, about the impact of these changes, as small as they may seem, it’s really important … There’s a lot going on right now. There’s a lot of chaos and confusion. It is very disruptive to a lot of people.”
Valley News: Hassan visits Dartmouth Cancer Center to talk about Trump’s research funding cuts
By Alex Hanson
A brief tour and meeting Thursday between U.S. Sen. Maggie Hassan, D-N.H., and officials from Dartmouth Health, Dartmouth Cancer Center and Dartmouth College put into stark relief the many ways in which the Trump Administration is disrupting health care and medical research.
[…] “I am particularly concerned about the cruelty of this administration’s approach where people’s lives are at risk,” Hassan, who sits on the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, said at the start of the roughly half-hour long meeting at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center.
WCAX: Hassan sees firsthand how cuts are affecting NH researchers
By Adam Sullivan
New Hampshire Sen. Maggie Hassan toured the medical center on Thursday, hearing firsthand how cuts to government agencies like the National Institutes of Health affect research.
[…] Grants have already been cut at the hospital but it’s unclear how many jobs could be affected. We do know nearly 400 employees at the hospital receive at least part of their salaries from federal funding. And around 1,300 jobs at Dartmouth College are tied to the funding.
WMUR: Dartmouth cancer researchers warn of impacts of federal funding cuts, language restrictions
By Imani Fleming
Researchers at Dartmouth Health are describing significant disruptions to some of their work because of the Trump administration's federal funding cuts.
Scientists and doctors at Dartmouth's cancer center told U.S. Sen. Maggie Hassan, D-New Hampshire, on Thursday that they rely on grants from the National Institutes of Health, and without those funds, they won't be able to find new treatments or better ways of delivering health care for Granite Staters.
WMUR: Hassan, NH officials discuss data security after PowerSchool breach
By Isabel Litterst
Officials say a software breach that compromised student and staff information from schools across the country in December included personal information such as students' names, ages and addresses.
Thousands of New Hampshire students were affected by the breach of PowerSchool software.
By Christopher Roberson
On Feb. 21, Hassan, together with U.S. Sen. James Banks (R-IN) and U.S. Sen. James Lankford (R-OK), sent a letter to PowerSchool demanding answers.
“I’m pushing PowerSchool to give us a full report,” said Hassan. “One of my priorities has been to push for IT modernization. It’s an ongoing safety and fiscal issue.”
In their letter, Hassan, Banks and Lankford lashed PowerSchool for not issuing an immediate alert.
“While the breach occurred as early as December 19, 2024, you failed to detect it until December 28, 2024,” they said. “Moreover, you did not notify SIS customers of the incident until January 7, 2025 – nineteen days after the incident. Your delayed and unclear communication is unacceptable, especially given the sensitive nature of the personal data that was stolen.”
Nashua Ink Link: Hassan holds a cybersecurity roundtable discussion with NH school officials
[…] The Senator spent most of her time listening and gathering information to follow up with the company.
“I was trying to make sure that we were communicating with our educators in the state about the impact and about what they’ve heard from this software provider, PowerSchool. I’m pushing PowerSchool, along with a couple of other senators, to give us a full report of what happened, how it happened, how they’re going to prevent it from happening in the future, and then how they’re going to help students and families who are impacted deal with the data breach. That’s really what this is about. We need to make sure that our schools are as safe as all of our other infrastructure and protect our students and our families fully,” Hassan said.
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