Gov. Maura Healey is giving up on Massachusetts taxpayers.

How else can you make sense of her ambitions? Her appearance on “Late Night With Seth Meyers” was a reckless play for Democratic platitudes. The applause light was put to work last week as she spoke of what her party did wrong instead of fixing what’s broken in the Bay State.

She’s part of the Democratic party’s scramble to recover from an embarrassing loss to President Donald Trump. It’s easy to see she’s positioning herself as a potential presidential candidate in 2028. Or, at the very least, a Cabinet post for being so early out of the gate.

But Massachusetts doesn’t need another Elizabeth Warren.

Warren played to the late-night crowd for years and still had to drop out of the presidential race in March of 2020. She rattled off the same tired talking points — “the middle class is getting hammered” — that even Stephen Colbert seemed exasperated.

It’s difficult to make jokes when you know your guest isn’t going to follow your lead.

Now we’re stuck with Healey, who is taking Warren’s route into obscurity, while we’re stuck with a $62 billion fiscal year 2026 budget proposal that needs a backup plan if federal dollars dry up.

And what about the Cape Cod bridges?

The Bay State has been working with the Army Corps of Engineers since 2020 to secure funding for the replacement of both bridges, expected to cost upwards of $4.5 billion.

If that isn’t enough to cause angina, Healey’s administration has already spent more than half a billion dollars this fiscal year on taxpayer-funded shelters housing migrants and local families, according to public data. That’s just over $520 million in the seven and a half months since the fiscal year started in July 2024.

Voters have put up with Warren, for some unknown reason, probably because she can’t do much harm in the U.S. Senate. But Healey controls taxpayer dollars where the rubber meets the road — or where our tires meet the potholes.

The governor needs to sit herself down in the Corner Office and legislate. She needs to secure whatever federal dollars she can and look to cut the budget at home — not on TV — and look out for the hard-working citizens of Massachusetts who desperately need a governor who wants to do the job.

Seth Meyers earns an annual salary of $5 million, according to published reports. He could care less about the migrant crisis in Massachusetts — unless sleeping migrants in Terminal E at Logan Airport come back again and force him to walk around the sleeping bags. (We checked recently, and it appears they have been moved out.)

There’s no humor in all of this. It’s actually rather sad that our great state is home to Democrats with lofty aspirations that ultimately have them saying goodbye to Massachusetts. Why not dig in and fix what’s broken? Why not try to work with the current administration as best you can?

Is it too much to ask our politicians to think about taxpayers first, for once?

Governor, all we ask is for you to study the rise and fall of Liz Warren and see if that’s the course you want to take. It’s not. As thousands drive over the aging Cape bridges, just remember that Maura Healey wanted to joke around with Seth Meyers instead of working for the people who put her in the driver’s seat.