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☁️Cloudy with a chance of showers and highs in the 70s. Sunset is at 7:35 p.m.

The Marines you might see around the Boston Common in the coming days are here to celebrate the Marine Corps’ 250th anniversary. There will be active duty and veteran Marines, aircraft and vehicles on the Common through Sunday, and public workouts and ceremonies every morning. You can see a full schedule of events here. Expect a military flyover scheduled at 10:45 a.m. today, and helicopters taking off from the Common on Sunday evening after being on display.

Four Things to Know

1. Rep. Ayanna Pressley once again called for a Congressional hearing for survivors of Jeffrey Epstein’s sex trafficking to share their stories. Pressley, a Boston Democrat, also said she’d like to see her party move forward with more ambitious policy ideas.

“I have colleagues that think that our response to having lost the White House, and to be in this Republican majority trifecta, is to moderate our aspirations. I disagree with that,” Pressley said on GBH’s Boston Public Radio. “I think the electorate has demonstrated that what they want is for us to advance policy solutions that are big and bold and go as deep as the hurt is.” You can watch her full interview here.

2. Hurricane Erin won’t make landfall in the U.S., but New England coasts might see some rougher-than-usual seas, dangerous waves and high surf through Friday and Saturday. If you’re heading to a beach in the coming days, know that it might be closed to swimmers and surfers. 

“We’re anticipating surf impacts, we’re anticipating some rip currents potentially along our beaches,” Scituate town administrator Jim Boudreau said. “We’re out there making sure all our low-lying, flood-prone areas are buttoned up.”

3.Emerson College has finished two weeks of layoffs, letting go of an unspecified number of employees on its faculty and staff in an attempt to cut 5% of its budget. As GBH reported, the layoffs caused anxiety among staff. But even before those announcements, some faculty members had begun to lose trust in President Jay Bernhardt, saying he had become increasingly isolated from the campus community.

“The administration lacks the trust from many of the faculty members,” said Doug Struck, a journalism professor and treasurer of the faculty union. “We have gotten no solid information about the enrollment drops.We’ve gotten no solid information about the budget shortfall.”

4. Warming waters off the Massachusetts coast mean some atypical marine animal sightings.

“Just about every day, we’re hearing about unusual sightings, species of, say, tropical fish that are being brought up by the Gulf Stream and settling here and really large animals that are obvious and easy to see, like manatees and increased sightings of sharks,” said John Durbin, a senior scientist with the Anderson Cabot Center for Ocean Life at the New England Aquarium. But: animals that used to be more common off our coasts, like Atlantic cod and lobsters, are heading north in search of cooler waters.

Feds start alerting states of people possibly ineligible for Medicaid

This week, federal officials said they began contacting states to notify them about people enrolled in Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program (known locally as MassHealth) who may be ineligible for coverage because of their immigration status.

Going forward, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services plans to give states “monthly enrollment reports” listing people whose citizenship or immigration status they could not confirm in federal databases.

About 2 million people in Massachusetts — just over a quarter of the state’s total population — get their health insurance coverage through MassHealth. And new federal mandates have already given MassHealth’s administrators additional bureaucratic work. The federal budget bill, colloquially known as the Big, Beautiful Bill, imposed new work requirements and limits on eligibility. 

“Every dollar misspent is a dollar taken away from an eligible, vulnerable individual in need of Medicaid and CHIP,” The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Administrator Mehmet Oz said. “This action underscores our unwavering commitment to program integrity, safeguarding taxpayer dollars, and ensuring benefits are strictly reserved for those eligible under the law.”

Yesterday, a spokesperson for the Massachusetts Executive Office of Health and Human Services said the state has “not yet received any direct communication from CMS on this issue.”

“We will continue to work diligently to follow state and federal laws regarding Medicaid coverage,” Stacey Nee said.

Read the full report here from the State House News Service.  

Dig deeper: 

-State orders open access to free prenatal vitamins, birth control for eligible MassHealth recipients 

-Healey says 250,000 people in Massachusetts could lose insurance under GOP’s proposed cuts

-Massachusetts bracing for “all hands” response to federal funds threat