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![[RI.gov] SNAP food benefits will run out Nov. 1 as federal officials debate the use of contingency funding typically used during federal shutdowns.](https://e8dgfhu6pow.exactdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/SNAP-food-benefits-1-250x228.jpg?strip=all&lossy=1&ssl=1)
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 […]
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 […]
Today, Sept. 1, is Labor Day, granting many a three-day weekend, a reminder of living wages, fair hours and safe conditions that  unions have won for workers, as President Donald […]
![[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-250x228.jpg?strip=all&lossy=1&ssl=1)
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 […]
![[CREDIT: Jim Taylor] Thousands attended the third 'No Kings' rall June 14 at the State House. Rallies were held in six other locations including Westerly and Middletown.](https://e8dgfhu6pow.exactdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/No-Kings-Rally-RI-State-House-1-250x228.jpg?strip=all&lossy=1&ssl=1)
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 […]
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 […]
![[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 […]
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: 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 […]
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: U.S. Attorney's Office] Assistant United States Attorney Zachary A. Cunha, chief of the civil division, has been nominated to serve as US Attorney in RI.](https://e8dgfhu6pow.exactdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Zachary-A.-Cunha-140x140.jpg?strip=all&lossy=1&ssl=1)
PROVIDENCE, RI — U.S. Attorney Zachary A. Cunha informed President Donald Trump he planned to step down Friday, but the president directed him to leave Monday instead, which automatically moved First […]
![[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 […]
UPDATE: Jan. 29, 1:56 p.m.: NBC News reports President Donald Trump has rescinded the order. WASHINGTON, DC — President Donald Trump has ordered a ‘temporary pause’ on on federal grants […]
WASHINGTON, DC — Monday, President Donald Trump granted more than 1,500 insurrection pardons and commutations for people convicted and charged in the Jan. 6, 2021 insurrection at the U.S. […]
It’s painful to say this, but we have all seen the proof, the aging, the public appearances and interviews, the obvious inability to take the fight for democracy to Donald […]
![[CREDIT: DOJ] Joseph Sirr of North Kingstown, RI was charged for his part in the Jan. 6 Capitol riot insurrection in 2021.](https://e8dgfhu6pow.exactdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/Joseph-Sirr-Capitol-Riot-Charged-1-140x140.png?strip=all&lossy=1&ssl=1)
WASHINGTON, DC — The January 6 Committee ended its likely final hearing Thursday with a subpoena for former president Donald J. Trump to answer for orchestrating the Capitol riots, which […]
WASHINGTON, DC — The U.S. House of Representatives, including RI’s Congressmen, has impeached President Donald J. Trump for inciting a violent mob to invade the U.S. Capitol building Jan. 6, […]
![[CREDIT: US Rep. David Cicilline] US Rep. David Cicilline sponsored an article of impeachment against President Donald J. Trump Jan. 11, 2021](https://e8dgfhu6pow.exactdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Rep-David-Cicilline-140x140.jpg?strip=all&lossy=1&ssl=1)
Congressman David N. Cicilline is one of three U.S. representatives to introduce an article of impeachment against President Donald Trump Monday morning. Cicilline joins California Congressman Ted Lieu and Maryland […]
![CREDIT: C-SPAN] U.S. Rep. James Langevin joined voices calling for the resignation or removal of President Donald J. Trump after the president incited an insurrection at the U.S. Capitol Jan. 6, 2021.](https://e8dgfhu6pow.exactdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Langevin-116th-Congress-140x140.png?strip=all&lossy=1&ssl=1)
WASHINGTON, DC — Congressman Jim Langevin (D-RI) urged President Donald J. Trump to resign, and failing that, for Vice President Mike Pence or Congress to remove him from office after […]
PROVIDENCE — The Rhode Island State Police increased police presence statewide as a joint session of Congress reconvened in the U.S. Capitol building to reject an objection to President Elect […]
WASHINGTON, DC – U.S. Senators Jack Reed (D-RI) and Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) have joined Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ), and 23 other Senators pressing U.S. Attorney General Bill Barr and Acting […]
![[CREDIT: White House] President Donald Trump delivers remarks at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC). Trump has been delaying using the DPA to provide supplies in the COVID-19 fight.](https://e8dgfhu6pow.exactdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/Trump-140x140.png?strip=all&lossy=1&ssl=1)
For the past 56 days, President Donald J. Trump has woken up, witnessed undeniable evidence that the country faces a deadly public health crisis in COVID-19, then decided to just let a lot of us die.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — “The arc of history is indeed long, and it does bend toward justice – but not today,” said Sen. Jack Reed (D-RI) following the U.S. Senate’s acquittal […]
![[CREDIT: C-SPAN] Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) and the House Judiciary Committee introduced two articles of impeachment against President Donald J. Trump for Abuse of Power and Obstruction of Congress, on Dec. 10, 2019.](https://e8dgfhu6pow.exactdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/U.S.-House-Judiciary-Articles-of-Impeachment-Trump-140x140.png?strip=all&lossy=1&ssl=1)
Washington, D.C. –Today the House Judiciary Committee introduced two articles of impeachment against President Donald J. Trump for Abuse of Power and Obstruction of Congress, with the support of both […]
![[CREDIT: US Sen. Jack Reed's office] US Sen. Jack Reed, D-RI, addresses Congress in July 2018 about the importance of securing elections from Russian interference and President Donald Trump's failure to stand up to Russian President Vladimir Putin.](https://e8dgfhu6pow.exactdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/Reed-speaks-on-need-for-election-security-140x140.png?strip=all&lossy=1&ssl=1)
WASHINGTON, DC – Following disclosure of a call in which President Donald Trump responded to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s request for missiles with requests for investigation into his potential presidential […]
WASHINGTON, DC — Today, President Donald Trump released a record of a call between the president and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, the subject of an intelligence whistleblower complaint withheld last […]
WARWICK, RI — U.S. Rep. James Langevin issued a statement this afternoon calling for the House to begin an impeachment inquiry against President Donald Trump. “The prospect of impeaching a […]
PROVIDENCE — Attorney General Peter F. Kilmartin, part of a coalition of seven Attorneys General, filed suit against the Trump administration to block its efforts to punish jurisdictions that did […]
WASHINGTON, DC — Following President Donald Trump’s press conference with Vladimir Putin in Helsinki, where he accepted Putin’s election meddling denial, Sen. Jack Reed (D-RI) and other top Senate Democrats sent a letter […]
Attorney General Peter F. Kilmartin joined a coalition of 17 Attorneys General filing in opposition to the Trump Administration’s proposal to rescind a rule that allows all employees to keep the tips they have earned.
Senator Sheldon Whitehouse’s (D-RI) bill to extend vital foreclosure protection to servicemembers and their families cleared Congress today as part of the fiscal year 2018 defense authorization bill and now heads to the President’s desk to be signed into law.
President Donald Trump’s Advisory Commission on Election Integrity wants sensitive information about voters, including partial social security numbers, emailed to an insecure address, but RI Secretary of State Nellie Gorbea has refused to deliver private information.
PROVIDENCE, RI — “When the President fails to adhere to constitutional norms, it is the job of the state attorneys general to rise up and defend our Constitution. And we […]
PROVIDENCE, RI — Rhode Island Attorney General Peter F. Kilmartin invoked the Ocean State’s history of religious tolerance in joining 15 attorneys general who announced the filing of an amicus brief in support of Washington and Minnesota in a federal lawsuit challenging the Trump Administration’s executive order banning entry to the US of refugees and travelers from seven predominantly Muslim countries.
RHODE ISLAND — Rhode Island officials have roundly condemned President Donald J. Trump’s Friday executive order suspending all refugees from entry to the country for 120 days, specifically barring Syrian refugees and blocking entry to citizens of seven Muslim countries: Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen.
