News Releases

WASHINGTON, DC –? As Rhode Islanders celebrate Teacher Appreciation Week, U.S. Jack Reed (D-RI) is teaming up with U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA) on the TEACH Improvement Act (S.4415). This legislation would strengthen the Teacher Education... Read More

PROVIDENCE, RI -- Today, after Rhode Island House Speaker K. Joseph Shekarchi announced he is officially stepping down as Speaker in order to apply to fill a vacant seat on the Rhode Island Supreme Court, U.S. Senator Jack Reed issued the following... Read More

WASHINGTON, DC – After months of misleading Americans about the cost of President Trump’s unauthorized ballroom project and where the money would come from, Congressional Republicans were finally forced to reveal the truth when they issued their... Read More

WASHINGTON, DC—Today, after the Department of Defense announced that President Trump had ordered the withdrawal of approximately 5,000 troops from Germany, U.S. Senator Jack Reed (D-RI), the Ranking Member of the Senate Armed Services Committee,... Read More

WASHINGTON, DC – In a victory for Rhode Island that should enhance productivity at Quonset, Rhode Island’s Congressional delegation today announced that after years of uncertainty and needless delay by the Trump Administration, it has finally landed... Read More

WASHINGTON, DC – In an effort to save consumers thousands of dollars and prevent the Trump Administration from providing a giveaway to big banks at homeowners' expense, U.S. Senator Jack Reed (D-RI) today led a letter to the head of the Office of the... Read More

A virtual gallery of 55 works of art from students across Rhode Island can be found here WARWICK, RI – U.S. Senator Jack Reed today announced the winners of his 2026 High School Art Competition to celebrate student artists across the Ocean State.... Read More

WASHINGTON, DC – As millions of Americans who rely on federal health care benefits such as the Affordable Care Act (ACA), Medicare, and Medicaid begin to feel the fallout from the sweeping changes and trillion-dollar cuts under President Donald... Read More

PROVIDENCE, RI – Today, after a person with a gun was apprehended outside the White House Correspondent Association dinner in Washington, DC, forcing the evacuation of President Trump, First Lady Melania Trump, and several other officials, U.S.... Read More

PROVIDENCE, RI – Today, the Trump Justice Department announced it is ‘closing’ its highly-politicized probe into Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell, one of several dubious investigations undertaken by the Justice Department into President Donald... Read More

WASHINGTON, DC – U.S. Senator Jack Reed is pressing the leadership of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) over delays in publishing the CFTC’s annual enforcement report and questioning whether the CFTC is doing enough to police the... Read More

CRANSTON, RI – Today, U.S. Senator Jack Reed stopped by the Mobil gas station on Oaklawn Avenue in Cranston to discuss how President Trump’s war of choice with Iran and trade wars with America’s allies are fueling higher prices for Americans at home,... Read More

WASHINGTON, DC—Today, after the Department of Defense announced that Secretary of the Navy John C. Phelan would resign his post, effective immediately, U.S. Senator Jack Reed (D-RI), the Ranking Member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, issued... Read More

WASHINGTON, DC – U.S. Senator Jack Reed (D-RI) says the Trump Administration’s reckless budget amounts to thoughtless, willful neglect, not fiscal prudence. Reed is urging Congress to reject Trump’s fiscally irresponsible budget that would weaken... Read More

WASHINGTON, DC – U.S. Senators Jack Reed (D-RI) and Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) joined Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and U.S. Senators Gary Peters (D-MI), Ranking Member of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee; Alex... Read More

WASHINGTON, DC – In recent days, President Trump has issued contradictory statements on Iran, from declaring Iran has “agreed to everything,” including working with the U.S. to remove its enriched uranium, to warning that if Iran does not sign a U.S.... Read More

WASHINGTON, DC – For over a century, the Federal Reserve has served as an independent central bank that can set interest rates without interference from Congress or the White House. But now, President Trump is sending clear signals that he wants his... Read More

WASHINGTON, DC -- What started over a decade ago when U.S. Senator Jack Reed (D-RI) secured a $2 million appropriation to launch the collaborative Southeast New England Program (SNEP) for Coastal Watershed Restoration program in Fiscal Year 2014 has... Read More

WASHINGTON, DC – Today, after scandal-plagued U.S. Secretary of Labor Lori Chavez-DeRemer reportedly resigned from Donald Trump’s cabinet while under investigation by the U.S. Department of Labor’s (DOL) inspector general over multiple abuse of power... Read More

WASHINGTON, DC – As working families across the country face sticker shock from their eye-popping gas and utility bills, the Trump Administration is finally heeding the call of a bipartisan group of lawmakers to release the approximately $400 million... Read More