[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.

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 […]

[CREDIT: Rob Borkowski] The U.S. Court of Appeals upheld suspending 2020 RI mail vote witnesses on Aug. 7.

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 […]