Trump Aims to ‘Run’ Venezuela After Kidnapping Maduro Jan. 3
By: Rob Borkowski on January 5, 2026 in News to You, All Politics Are Local, National
WASHINGTON, DC — A year into a term marked by rising inflation, shrinking jobs, seizure of Congressional powers and Epstein file cameos, President Donald Trump has decided to also run […]
Trump Holds SNAP Hostage in Shutdown Fight
By: Rob Borkowski on November 4, 2025 in News to You, National, State
WASHINGTON, DC — President Donald Trump has stated on his social media account, Truth Social, that SNAP funding will not be released until the federal shutdown ends, defying court orders […]
OSJL: Food 20% Off Till SNAP Is Back
By: Rob Borkowski on in News to You, National, State
NORTH KINGSTOWN, RI — Discount retail chain Ocean State Job Lot (OSJL) has announced the entire food section in all 17 Rhode Island stores will be discounted 20 percent […]
Judges: Trump Has Till Monday to Agree to Fund SNAP
By: Rob Borkowski on November 1, 2025 in News to You, National, State
PROVIDENCE, RI — Attorney General Peter F. Neronha praised a U.S. District Court ruling that the Trump Administration’s United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) can use its Supplemental Nutrition Assistance […]
PUC OKs Shekarchi-Urged RI Energy Shutdown Aid
By: Rob Borkowski on October 30, 2025 in State, National, News to You
STATE HOUSE — While Republican and Democrat Senators’ federal shutdown stalemate over extending Affordable Care Act subsidies continues, RI officials working with RI Energy have arranged relief for affected Ocean […]
Reed Joins 2 Bipartisan SNAP Patch Plans
By: Rob Borkowski on in News to You, National
WASHINGTON, DC — While President Donald Trump and Sen. Jack Reed each say they want to fund SNAP food aid during the federal shutdown, only the President can do that […]
Shutdown Standoff: DEMs Oppose Hiking HSRI Bills
By: Rob Borkowski on October 29, 2025 in News to You, National
PROVIDENCE, RI — The Oct. 1 federal shutdown trods on as Democrats insist on averting expiring Affordable Care Act (ACA) subsidies that’ll double monthly health insurance bills for more than […]
RI Groups Urge Peaceful Discourse After Kirk Murder
By: Rob Borkowski on September 11, 2025 in All Politics Are Local, National, News to You, State
PROVIDENCE, RI — Officials and political groups urged peaceful dialogue after conservative pundit Charlie Kirk was shot dead at Utah Valley University Sept. 10 answering a question about gun violence. […]
WestBay Marketplace Unloads 40K Pounds of Food Donations
By: Rob Borkowski on July 21, 2025 in News to You, National, State
WARWICK, RI — WestBay Marketplace food pantry unloaded 40,000 lbs. of food donated by the The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on Monday, July 14, the result of […]
U.S. Court Injunction Halts Trump Dismantling HHS
By: Rob Borkowski on July 1, 2025 in News to You, Health, National
PROVIDENCE, RI — A Rhode Island court has granted a preliminary injunction filed by Attorney General Peter Neronha and 19 other attorneys general against Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the […]
RI Protesters Join ‘No Kings’ Rallies Opposing Trump June 14
By: Rob Borkowski on June 14, 2025 in National, News to You, State
PROVIDENCE, RI — Rhode Islanders joined nation-wide ‘No Kings’ protesters Saturday opposing President Donald Trump’s coup’s $100 million parade, his administration’s billionaire-first agenda and the militarization of American democracy. “The […]
Agents Force Senator Asking Question Out of DHS Press Conference June 12
By: Rob Borkowski on June 13, 2025 in News to You, National
LOS ANGELES, CA — US Senator Alex Padilla (D-CA) interrupted Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Noem’s DHS press conference at a federal building Thursday trying to ask a question, […]
Reed: GOP Must Rebuke Kennedy Firing 17 Vaccine Advisors
By: Rob Borkowski on June 10, 2025 in News to You, Health, National
WASHINGTON, DC — U.S. Senator Jack Reed is urging Republican Congressmen to stand up for their constituents and work with Democrats to hold HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. accountable […]
Judge: Trump HHS $11B Health Grants Block Usurps Congress
By: Rob Borkowski on May 21, 2025 in State, National
PROVIDENCE, RI — On May 16, a Rhode Island U.S. Court granted a preliminary injunction against the Trump Administration’s seizure of Congressional power to halt an $11 billion public health […]
Reed: SecDef Leadership Falters On 2nd Airstrike Text
By: Rob Borkowski on April 21, 2025 in News to You, National
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 […]
RI ‘Hands Off’ Protests Return to Providence
By: Rob Borkowski on April 19, 2025 in News to You, National, State
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, […]
RI ‘Hands Off!’ Protestors: ‘Ho-Ho, Donald Trump Has Got to Go!’
By: Rob Borkowski on April 5, 2025 in News to You, All Politics Are Local, National, State
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 […]
Trump Fires All LIHEAP Staff
By: Rob Borkowski on April 2, 2025 in National, News to You, State
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 […]
RI Sues Trump Admin. to Keep $31M RI Health Grants
By: Rob Borkowski on April 1, 2025 in Health, National, State
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 […]
McKee: All $220.9M Washington Bridge Funding Secured
By: Rob Borkowski on March 28, 2025 in News to You, National, State
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 […]
RI Delegation Thaws $30M Washington Bridge Funds
By: Rob Borkowski on in News to You, National
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 […]
Reed: Trump’s Illegal Firing of FTC Commissioners ‘Abuse of Power’
By: Warwick Post Staff on March 18, 2025 in News to You, National
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 […]
Judge: Customs To Answer For Deporting RI Doctor
By: Rob Borkowski on March 17, 2025 in National, News to You, Police, Police News & Fire News in RI
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 […]
AGs Sue to Stop Trump Education Department Dismantling
By: Rob Borkowski on March 13, 2025 in News to You, National, State
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 […]
You’re Not Alone: Trump Coup Opposition Is Growing
By: Rob Borkowski on March 12, 2025 in News to You, All Politics Are Local, National
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 […]
RI, 21 AGs Win Block of Trump Coup DHHS, NIH Cuts
By: Rob Borkowski on March 5, 2025 in News to You, National, State
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 […]
RIAG Files Followup Fighting Jan. 28 Funds Freeze, Trump Coup
By: Rob Borkowski on March 3, 2025 in News to You, National, State
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 […]
Trump Guts CFPB, Leaving Military Families Defenseless
By: Rob Borkowski on February 26, 2025 in Business, National, News to You
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 […]
Magaziner, Reed Vow to Fight Musk – Trump Coup
By: Rob Borkowski on February 17, 2025 in News to You, National, Police, Police News & Fire News in RI
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 […]
Reed Vows Cooperative, Watchful Work with Hegseth
By: Rob Borkowski on January 27, 2025 in News to You, National
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 […]
Reed Lauds Biden’s Galvanizing Effect on NATO
By: Rob Borkowski on July 11, 2024 in National, News to You
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, […]
Magaziner Shares Plans Curbing Energy & Food Costs
By: Rob Borkowski on July 9, 2024 in Coventry, RI news, National, News to You
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 […]
Reed: National Security Hinges on Speedy Reconciling of NDAA
By: Rob Borkowski on November 30, 2023 in National, News to You
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’ […]
Magaziner: Government Shutdown Threatens Rhode Islanders
By: Rob Borkowski on September 27, 2023 in National, Uncategorized
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 […]
Magaziner Joins Call to Censure Rep. Paul Gosar for ‘Harboring neo-Nazi Extremists’
By: Rob Borkowski on May 17, 2023 in National, News to You
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 […]
Reed Joins Call to Supervise Buy Now Pay Later Lenders
By: Rob Borkowski on March 23, 2023 in Business, National, News to You
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 […]
Reed Backs US Chip Manufacturing Moves
By: Rob Borkowski on March 1, 2023 in National, News to You
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 […]
Sept. 11 – Start to Remember
By: Rob Borkowski on September 14, 2021 in All Politics Are Local, National
Never forget Sept. 11, 2001, they’ve said, for 20 years now. I do remember. On Sept. 11, I walked into the MetroWest Daily News Framingham newsroom awash in a stunned […]