BOSTON, Massachusetts (CNN) – Hours before President Obama was to fly to Boston to push his administration’s education initiative, two congressmen from the president’s own party held a press conference to protest the administration’s proposed budget cuts to a program to help the poor afford heating oil.
Massachusetts congressmen Jim McGovern and Michael Capuano joined former Democratic congressman Joe Kennedy to criticize the administration’s attempts to cut in half the $5.1 billion budget to fund LIHEAP, the low income energy assistance program.
McGovern said that while he has been a firm supporter of Obama, this was not a protest against the president but instead against the cuts.
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