News Releases

WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senators Jack Reed (D-RI), Ranking Member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Mark Warner (D-VA), Vice Chairman of the Senate Intelligence... Read More

WASHINGTON, DC—U.S. Senator Jack Reed (D-RI) today issued the following statement in response to the Trump Administration’s cancellation of the $7 billion Solar for All program which was created under the Biden Administration to help underserved... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. – This week, on the 60th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, U.S. Senators Jack Reed and Sheldon Whitehouse joined U.S. Senator Mazie K. Hirono (D-HI) and 15 of their Senate colleagues in introducing the Time Off to Vote... Read More

WASHINGTON, DC – U.S. Senator Jack Reed (D-RI) is demanding a formal explanation from the Director of the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) after Jeffrey Epstein’s co-conspirator, Ghislaine Maxwell, was moved to a minimum-security federal prison camp... Read More

WASHINGTON, DC – This week, U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., an anti-vaccine crusader, cancelled almost $500 million in federal contracts to develop mRNA vaccines to protect the U.S. against future viral... Read More

WASHINGTON, DC – U.S. Senator Jack Reed is calling for a special investigation into President Trump’s abrupt firing of the Commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) following a jobs report that shows the economic damage sparked by Trump’s... Read More

WASHINGTON, DC -- During a CNBC interview yesterday, President Trump announced his intent to impose a 250 percent tariff on pharmaceuticals. If implemented, this action would cost Americans billions of dollars, disrupt the drug supply chain, and put... Read More

WASHINGTON, DC – After a late Saturday night legislative session, U.S. Senator Jack Reed’s (D-RI) Homebuyers Privacy Protection Act is finally headed to the president’s desk. The bipartisan bill, co-authored by Bill Hagerty (R-TN), targets abusive... Read More

WASHINGTON, DC – After Jeffrey Epstein’s co-conspirator, Ghislaine Maxwell, who is serving a 20-year prison sentence for her role in recruiting and trafficking minors for sex, was moved to a minimum-security federal prison camp in Texas this week,... Read More

WASHINGTON, DC -- The U.S. Senate today voted 87-9 to approve three key appropriations bills for fiscal year 2026: Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies (Ag); Military Construction-Veterans Affairs... Read More

WASHINGTON, DC – Today, after a weaker-than-expected economic report showed U.S. job growth at its worst monthly numbers since December 2020 -- at the height of pandemic when President Trump was in office – President Trump reacted by firing the... Read More

WASHINGTON, DC – With temperatures hitting triple digits in Rhode Island and several states across the country this week, and electricity prices surging in communities across the country, the bill advanced by the Senate Appropriations Committee today... Read More

WASHINGTON, DC – This week, President Trump’s former personal defense attorney and current high-ranking DOJ lawyer Todd Blanche was dispatched to conduct a private jailhouse interview with Jeffrey Epstein’s associate Ghislaine Maxwell, who President... Read More

WASHINGTON, DC – Today, Senate Armed Services Ranking Member Jack Reed (D-RI) joined Ranking Senate Defense Appropriator Chris Coons (D-DE), Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY), Senate Appropriations Vice Chair Patty Murray (D-WA), Senate... Read More

WASHINGTON, DC – Today, on the 60th anniversary of the Medicare and Medicaid programs, U.S. Senator Jack Reed joined Democratic colleagues in introducing new legislation to repeal the health care cuts in President Donald Trump and Republicans’ ‘Big,... Read More

WASHINGTON, DC – The U.S. has an estimated shortage of nearly 5 million homes, according to the Brookings Institution, and construction costs -- which are impacted by tariffs -- continue to skyrocket and raise the price of housing. In an effort to... Read More

WASHINGTON, DC – Forty U.S. Senators, including Jack Reed (D-RI) and Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), are expressing unified alarm about the humanitarian crisis in Gaza, imploring the Trump Administration to step up its role in addressing starvation in... Read More

WASHINGTON, DC – Today, the Trump Administration took steps to revoke a scientific ‘endangerment finding’ that has long been the central basis for U.S. action to regulate greenhouse gas emissions and combat climate change. Without the endangerment... Read More

WASHINGTON, DC – A leading group of lawmakers say the American people have a right to know which corporations, foreign nationals, and lobbyists are financing the future presidential libraries of sitting U.S. presidents and paying to curry favor with... Read More

PROVIDENCE, RI – With Rhode Island under a heat advisory this week and temperatures forecast to reach 100°F, U.S. Senator Jack Reed is teaming up with several lawmakers and labor unions to protect the health and safety of workers who are exposed to... Read More