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 […]
Reed Joins 2 Bipartisan SNAP Patch Plans
By: Rob Borkowski on October 30, 2025 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 […]
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 […]
RI Co-Leads 25 States’ Education Funding Freeze Suit
By: Rob Borkowski on July 14, 2025 in News to You, Schools, State
PROVIDENCE, RI –Attorney General Peter F. Neronha is co-leading 23 attorneys general and two governors in a Rhode Island lawsuit to thaw the Trump Administration’s unconstitutional education funding freeze 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 […]
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!’ 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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
U.S. Attorney Cunha Steps Down Early on Trump’s Order
By: Rob Borkowski on February 19, 2025 in Police, Police News & Fire News in RI
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 […]
RI, Congress, Fight Jan. 28 Trump Budget Power Grab
By: Rob Borkowski on January 29, 2025 in News to You
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 […]
Trump Insurrection Pardons Aid 4 RI Men
By: Rob Borkowski on January 23, 2025 in Police, Police News & Fire News in RI
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. […]
Biden vs. Trump 2024: Are You Smarter Than a Dictator?
By: Warwick Post Staff on July 13, 2024 in All Politics Are Local, Election 2024
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 […]
Sirr Imprisoned for Capitol Insurrection Actions
By: Rob Borkowski on May 24, 2023 in Election 2022, Police, Police News & Fire News in RI
WASHINGTON — Bernard Joseph Sirr, 47, of North Kingstown, RI, the second Rhode Islander arrested for his Capitol insurrection actions during the breach of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, […]
FBI: GOP Budget Cuts Would Worsen Opioid Epidemic
By: Rob Borkowski on May 11, 2023 in News to You, Police, Police News & Fire News in RI
WASHINGTON, DC — As Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA, Dist. 23) uses conservative lawmakers’ refusal to raise the $31.4 trillion debt ceiling to negotiate $4.5 trillion in GOP budget cuts, Sen. Jack […]
Reed: Trump Must Answer for Capitol Riot
By: Rob Borkowski on October 14, 2022 in Election 2020, News to You
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 […]
RI Rep. Cicilline Introduces Article of Impeachment Against President Trump
By: Liz Taurasi on January 11, 2021 in News to You
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 […]
Langevin: Trump Should Resign, or be Removed
By: Warwick Post Staff on January 7, 2021 in All Politics Are Local, News to You
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 […]
RI State Police Boost Security After Trump Mob Storms U.S. Capitol
By: Warwick Post Staff on in News to You, Uncategorized
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 […]
COVID-19 Recession Lifeline Rests With Senate Republicans
By: Rob Borkowski on December 28, 2020 in COVID-19, News to You
WASHINGTON, DC — The U.S. House just passed the recession lifeline CASH Act increasing pandemic stimulus payments to Americans to $2,000 as President Donald J. Trump claims he wants, and […]
Congress OKs $900B COVID-19 Relief in $2.3T Appropriation Bill
By: Warwick Post Staff on December 22, 2020 in COVID-19, News to You
WASHINGTON, DC – A $2.3 trillion 2021 Omnibus Appropriations Bill including a $900 billion COVID-19 Relief Package has cleared Congress and waits President Donald J. Trump’s signature. The legislation cleared the […]
Langevin Supports DOD Refocus on Civilian Oversight
By: Rob Borkowski on November 25, 2020 in News to You
WARWICK, RI — RI Congressman James Langevin (D-Dist. 2) voiced support for Acting Secretary of Defense Christopher Miller‘s memo requiring the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Special Operations and Low-Intensity Conflict […]
GSA Acknowledges Biden Presidential Win
By: Rob Borkowski on November 24, 2020 in News to You
WASHINGTON, DC — General Services Administration (GSA) Administrator Emily W. Murphy, President Donald Trump’s appointee,has relented in her weeks-long delay of acknowledging President-Elect Joe Biden’s Nov. 3 election win, signing […]
Honor Veterans, Preserve America
By: Rob Borkowski on November 12, 2020 in All Politics Are Local, Election 2020
Thank you, veterans, for serving the United States and protecting it from all threats, foreign and domestic. Thank you, too, for putting your lives on the line to protect America’s […]
Reed, Whitehouse Oppose COVID-19 Science Supression via STOP Act
By: Rob Borkowski on September 23, 2020 in COVID-19, News to You
WASHINGTON, DC – U.S. Senators Jack Reed (D-RI) and Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) have joined Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and 31 other colleagues to prevent the Trump Administration’s suppression of […]
Langevin: Post Office Vital to Rhode Islanders
By: Rob Borkowski on August 24, 2020 in News to You
WASHINGTON, DC — Saturday, Congressman Jim Langevin (D-RI) called for a halt to U.S Postal Service changes announced by President Donald Trump’s appointed Postmaster General Louis DeJoy before his vote to […]
Reed, Whitehouse Reject COVID-19 Education Aid Tied to In-Person Learning
By: Rob Borkowski on August 4, 2020 in COVID-19, Schools
WASHINGTON, DC – U.S. Senators Jack Reed (D-RI), Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), Dick Durbin (D-IL), and 27 Senate colleagues are urging U.S. Senate leadership to reject the Trump Administration’s push conditioning […]
RI Senators Challenge Trump’s ‘Authoritarian’ Agents
By: Rob Borkowski on July 23, 2020 in News to You
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 […]
Congress OKs PPP Extension Till Aug. 8
By: Rob Borkowski on July 2, 2020 in Business
WASHINGTON, DC – Late last night, Congress unanimously voted to extend the U.S. Small Business Administration’s authority to approve Paycheck Protection Program, PPP, loans through Aug. 8, sending the measure […]