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![[CREDIT: CSPAN] After confirmation by the U.S. Senate in a tie breaking vote of 51-50, President Donald Trump's pick to serve as Defense Secretary, Pete Hegseth, was sworn in by Vice President JD Vance Saturday, Jan. 25.](https://e8dgfhu6pow.exactdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Hegseth-U.S.-Secretary-of-Defense-250x228.jpg?strip=all&lossy=1&ssl=1)
WASHINGTON, DC — Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth faces a second report, by the New York Times, of his unsecure Signal App transmissions about fighter jet strikes in Yemen to […]
PROVIDENCE, RI — Rhode Islanders in Providence and Westerly joined nationwide ‘Hands Off!’ protests against the Musk – Trump Coup, filling the State House grounds marching down Francis Street Saturday, […]
![[CREDIT: Jeni Luther] Thousands of people swelled the streets in Providence April 5 to tell the Musk -Trump Coup to take their hands off Americans' freedoms, security, voting rights, Medicare, Social Security and powers not granted in the U.S. Constitution during the national Hands Off protest.](https://e8dgfhu6pow.exactdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Providence-Hands-Off-Protest-3-April-5-2025-250x228.jpg?strip=all&lossy=1&ssl=1)
PROVIDENCE, RI — Rhode Islanders in four Ocean State locations were among millions nationwide turning out for ‘Hands Off!’ protests against the Musk – Trump Coup seizing Congressional powers, defying […]
![[CREDIT: RI HHS] LIHEAP is a federally funded home heating assistance program. President Donald Trump's Department of Health and Human Services, run by RFK Jr. has fired all LIHEAP staff.](https://e8dgfhu6pow.exactdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/LIHEAP-Staff-Fired-2025-250x228.jpg?strip=all&lossy=1&ssl=1)
WASHINGTON, DC — Many Rhode Islanders rely on LIHEAP each winter to help them keep their homes warm, which will be difficult next winter now that President Donald Trump has […]
![[CREDIT: Rob Borkowski] The U.S. Court in Providence. A Providence man will be sentenced July 24 for his admitted part in a Land Rover credit fraud scheme in RI & NH.](https://e8dgfhu6pow.exactdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/US-Courthouse-140x140.jpg?strip=all&lossy=1&ssl=1)
PROVIDENCE, RI — A measles outbreak and mounting bird flu outbreak threaten the nation, challenges the Trump Administration’s Department of Health and Human Services are responding to by illegally cutting […]
![[CREDIT: RIDOT] Funding for the westbound Washington Bridge rebuild has been re-secured after President Donald Trump froze funding in January.](https://e8dgfhu6pow.exactdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/RIDOT-Washington-Bridge-Rebuild-250x228.jpg?strip=all&lossy=1&ssl=1)
PROVIDENCE, RI — Thursday, Gov. Dan McKee announced that the State of Rhode Island and the federal government have formally signed the agreement for the $220.9 million Mega-INFRA grants to […]
WASHINGTON, DC – U.S. Senators Jack Reed and Sheldon Whitehouse, Congressmen Seth Magaziner and Gabe Amo announced $30 million of $220.9 million in federal funding for the westbound Washington Bridge […]
![[CREDIT: FTC] President Trump has illegally fired two Democratic FTC commissioners.](https://e8dgfhu6pow.exactdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/FTC-250x228.jpg?strip=all&lossy=1&ssl=1)
WASHINGTON, DC – President Donald Trump has fired the two Democratic commissioners on the five-member U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC), an independent agency charged with enforcing consumer protection and antitrust […]
BOSTON, MA — A federal judge has ordered U.S. Customs and Border officials to a hearing at 10 a.m. to answer allegations they “willfully” disobeyed his order, deporting Rhode Island […]
PROVIDENCE, RI – RI Attorney General Neronha today joined 20 other attorneys general suing the Trump Administration to stop the Trump Administration from continuing its Education Department dismantling plan, defying […]
![[CREDIT: Women Forward] On March 1, the Women Forward grassroots political action group hosted a Livestream roundtable discussion with Congressman Jamie Raskin (D-MD), Congresswoman Melanie Stansbury (D-NM) & Rob Shriver, former Acting Director of the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) discussing opposition to the Trump Coup.](https://e8dgfhu6pow.exactdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Women-Forward-Raskin-Trump-Coup-250x228.jpg?strip=all&lossy=1&ssl=1)
The President Donald J. Trump Coup is angling for Congress’s Constitutional spending power, ignoring Judicial independence, dismantling federal agencies, and claimed the punchline from French surrender jokes by handing Russia […]
PROVIDENCE, R.I. – Attorney General Peter F. Neronha and 21 attorneys general have secured a nationwide preliminary injunction in Massachusetts v. NIH halting the Trump Coup attack on Congressionally appropriated […]
PROVIDENCE, R.I. – Attorney General Neronha is co-leading 22 attorneys general filing a second motion for enforcement in their ongoing lawsuit against the Trump administration’s illegal Jan. 28 freeze […]
![[CREDIT: CFPB] President Trump has removed the CFPB's staff, funding and offices, leaving Americans and military families alone against predatory lenders and other cheats and scams.](https://e8dgfhu6pow.exactdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/CFPB-250x228.png?strip=all&lossy=1&ssl=1)
WASHINGTON, DC — As an officer in the 82nd Airborne Division, Sen. Jack Reed (D-RI) was dismayed his troops were cheated by predatory lenders, so he knows Americans and military […]
![[CREDIT: Rob Borkowski] On Monday, Feb. 17, U.S. Rep. Seth Magaziner (RI-02) and U.S. Sen. Jack Reed (D-RI) held a press conference with Rhode Island education leaders to address the devastating impacts of proposed cuts to the U.S. Department of Education, part of the Musk - Trump Coup.](https://e8dgfhu6pow.exactdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Magaziner-Reed-Fight-Trump-Coup-250x228.jpg?strip=all&lossy=1&ssl=1)
CRANSTON, RI — Rep. Seth Magaziner (D-02) and Sen. Jack Reed (RI-D) met at the National Education Association Rhode Island office Monday morning to outline the latest attack on […]
WASHINGTON, DC — Friday, after the U.S. Senate voted 50-50 on the nomination of Peter Hegseth as Secretary of Defense, with Vice President JD Vance casting a tie-breaking vote in […]
![[Sen. Reed's Office] U.S. Sen. Jack Reed, far left, second row, with several Senators at the NATO summit in Washington, DC. At center are Senators Dem. majority leader Chuck Schumer and GOP minority leader Mitch McConnell.](https://e8dgfhu6pow.exactdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Reed-Biden-NATO-Summit.jpg?strip=all&lossy=1&resize=250%2C188&ssl=1)
WASHINGTON, DC — U.S. Senator Jack Reed (D-RI), Chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, returned from meetings with counterparts among NATO allies and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy this week, […]
![[CREDIT: Rob Borkowski] Congressman Seth Magaziner visited Coventry Senior Center June 18. He was shown around the building by Director Bob Robillard and Town Manager Dan Parrillo.](https://e8dgfhu6pow.exactdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Magaziner-Coventry-Senior-Center-June-18-video-preview.jpg?strip=all&lossy=1&resize=250%2C188&ssl=1)
COVENTRY, RI — Congressman Seth Magaziner (RI-02) visited the Coventry Senior Center at 50 Wood St. June 18, sharing plans to curb energy & food costs, among other priorities to a […]
![{U.S. Senate photo by Dan Rios] The NDAA conference committee alternates between the two chambers. This year, on Nov. 29, SASC Chairman Reed ‘passed the gavel’ to HASC Chairman Rogers, who chaired the conference meeting.](https://e8dgfhu6pow.exactdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Reed-Collins-Pass-Gavel_NDAA-140x140.jpg?strip=all&lossy=1&ssl=1)
WASHINGTON, DC – U.S. Senator Jack Reed, Chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC), said Russia’s illegal invasion of Ukraine and China’s intent and ability to challenge United States’ […]
![[CREDIT: Rep. Magaziner's Office] Rep. Seth Magaziner (RI-02) held a press conference on the effect a federal government shutdown would have on working Rhode Islanders. From left: Left to right: Matthew McCoy, Justin Kelley, Magaziner, Jamie Green, and Cindy Coyne.](https://e8dgfhu6pow.exactdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Magaziner-Federal-Government-Shutdown-Conference-140x140.jpg?strip=all&lossy=1&ssl=1)
WARWICK, RI — U.S. House Republicans have three days to salvage their failed budget negotiations to avoid a federal government shutdown that’ll harm Rhode Islanders. In May, President Joe Biden […]
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Reps Seth Magaziner (RI-02), Dan Goldman (NY-10), Becca Balint (VT-AL), Jared Moskowitz (FL-23), and Greg Landsman (OH-01) sent a letter to Speaker Kevin McCarthy asking him to […]
WASHINGTON, DC – Wednesday, U.S. Sen. Jack Reed (D-RI) and colleagues sent a letter to Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) Director Rohit Chopra urging speedy supervision of large Buy Now […]
WASHINGTON, DC — The federal government is investing $52 billion for computer chip manufacturing across the United States, something U.S. Senator Jack Reed (D-RI) says is critical to America’s national […]
