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Selective criticism? The Bay State’s two progressive senators silent on a Trump tax break that will trigger a windfall in Greater Boston’s bluest suburbs

Oh, how Sens. Ed Markey and Elizabeth Warren despise all those tax giveaways for the wealthy and the dastardly Republicans who push them.

“It’s all to get a few more bucks for the wealthiest people in our country that already have too much,” Markey said of Trump tax bill that just cleared Congress in a video posted online.

But Markey and Warren have little, if anything, to say about one of the biggest windfalls for the wealthy in Trump’s sprawling, everything-but-the-kitchen-sink bill.

That would be the dramatic hike in the deduction for state and local taxes to $40,000, which will drain hundreds of billions from the federal treasury over the next decade, according to one estimate.

Hmm, could one reason for the silence be that this tax disproportionately benefits Democratic political strongholds in upscale and politically progressive suburbs like Brookline and Wellesley?

Thanks to the provision, wealthy homeowners in blue states with outrageously expensive housing markets like Massachusetts - and high local and state taxes - will be able to shave thousands of dollars off their federal tax bills.

Massachusetts has the fifth-highest percentage of homeowners in the country who would benefit from the change, weighing in at more than 18 percent, Axios reports.

Towns like Wellesley, Needham, Newton, and Sudbury voted for Harris over Trump in last year’s presidential election by huge margins of 75 percent and up.

Now some of the wealthiest – and most progressive – residents of these increasingly exclusive burbs will get to write off some of the expense of supporting their town and state governments, courtesy of the man they love to hate.

Contrarian Boston reached out to spokespersons for the state’s two senators but did not hear back by our deadline.

Markey, Warren and other members of the state’s all-Democratic congressional delegation have had lots to say about the improbable $1 trillion in savings the Trump tax bill seeks to squeeze out of Medicaid, the health insurance program for the poor and elderly.

But it’s a different story when it comes to a tax break that, according to the Bipartisan Policy Center, will save wealthy homeowners across the country $350 billion over the next decade, including some of the Democratic Party’s staunchest supporters.

On that, the state’s congressional delegation has gone radio silent.

Real journalism or thinly veiled lobbying campaign? NPR’s coverage of attempts to kill federal funding for public media doesn’t pass the smell test

Talk about being high on your own supply.

As Trump looks to yank its funding, NPR has been attempting to rally public support with one-sided discussions on its news talk shows.

Yet the public radio giant either doesn’t care, or doesn’t seem to understand, that such thinly-veiled politicking only further erodes its credibility outside the progressive bubble it operates in.