U.S. Rep. Seth Moulton To Hold North Shore Town Hall This Weekend

BOXFORD, MA — Six weeks after U.S. Rep. Seth Moulton's oft-contentious constituent town hall in Peabody included the airing of sharp divisions among North Shore residents — especially those within the Democratic party when it came to transgender support and rights, immigration, and taking stands for progressive values — at Peabody City Hall, Moulton will hold his next town hall in Boxford this weekend.

The in-person town hall is set for Saturday from 2:30 to 3:30 p.m. at Masconomet Regional High School at 20 Endicott Road in Boxford.

• Transgender Debate, Sharp Divisions On Display At U.S. Rep. Moulton's Peabody Town Hall

The latest town hall comes as Moulton has made the national media rounds in recent weeks being highly critical of the President Trump Administration's moves on tariffs, government funding cuts — especially when it comes to veterans services — and the treatment of Ukraine during the ongoing Russian invasion.

At the January town hall in Peabody, Moulton was on the receiving end of challenges from critics who support President Trump's crackdown on undocumented immigrants, as well as those within his own party who advocated taking a strong stand against Trump policies rather than engaging in what they believe to be a misguided search for common ground with Republicans.

Moulton stood his ground on most issues, including his November assertion that Democrats were out of touch with the rest of the country in parts of the transgender debate on athletics, when he said he did not want his young daughters getting "run over" by male or formerly male athletes on the soccer field.

Moulton spoke in Peabody of those on the left trying to "cancel" him after his transgender comments that he said put many Democrats out of touch with "everyday Americans" and were a key reason why the party suffered such losses in the November election.

He specifically called out the Salem School Committee for denouncing his comments rather than engaging in a debate about them where they may discover more common ground.

In recent days, Moulton called Trump an "unstable man" whose policies are leading to an "unstable America."

"This is dangerous to our economy and it's dangerous for the relationships around the world that keep us safe," he told MSNBC.

Moulton said he supports government agency reforms but not in the indiscriminate way that he said President Trump and Elon Musk are going about implementing them.

"No responsible business leader would run their company like this," he wrote in an op-ed.

"We could have a legitimate debate about whether tariffs are good or bad," he said in a CNN interview, "and there are positions on both sides of this. But right now the business community … they don't even know what to expect, so they can't plan. …

"There's no consistency just chaos, and that makes it very hard to run a business."

(Scott Souza is a Patch field editor covering Beverly, Danvers, Marblehead, Peabody, Salem and Swampscott. He can be reached at Scott.Souza@Patch.com. X/Twitter: @Scott_Souza.)