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The City Council’s decision to cut $900,000 from the veterans' services budget has prompted an outcry from across the country, council President Ed Flynn said.

Mayor Michelle Wu on Friday rejected the City Council’s proposed cuts to Boston Police and a host of other city departments, including veterans affairs and the Boston Public Library. Councillors voted 7-5 earlier this week on a $4.2 billion operating budget that included $53 million in amendments, boosting some accounts but cutting from others, including $31 million from the

A question for the members of the Boston City Council who voted to cut some $31M from the police budget - just what city are you representing?

The Boston City Council voted 7-5 on a $4.2 million operating budget proposal, which features roughly $30 million in cuts from the city police department. It's headed to the mayor's desk.

The City Council passed the budget proposal with a 7-5 vote Wednesday, approving roughly $52.9 million in amendments.

A divided City Council on Wednesday voted to send a $4.2 billion operating budget to Mayor Wu’s desk after clashing over cuts to city departments, including roughly $30 million from the Boston Police Department. The 7-5 vote came after District 7 Councillor Tania Fernandes Anderson, who chairs the budget-writing Ways and Means Committee, laid out the amendments councillors

BOSTON (WHDH) - A crowd gathered at Forest Hills Cemetery in Boston on Sunday for the 130th annual Firefighters Memorial Sunday. The procession drew dozens<a class="excerpt-read-more" href="https://whdh.com/news/crowd-gathers-for-130th-annual-firefighters-memorial-ceremony-in-boston/">Read More</a>

Firefighters across Boston gathered together at Forest Hills Cemetery on Sunday morning to remember those fallen.

If the council cannot agree on a budget by next Wednesday, the rules say, Wu’s budget proposal “shall be in effect as if formally adopted by the city council and approved by the mayor.”

A City Council plan to slash $42 million from the Boston Police Department budget was killed, for now, on Wednesday.