News Releases

WASHINGTON, DC -- This week, press reports indicated that at least four more American servicemembers have died in the Iran war than are acknowledged in the Pentagon’s public casualty database. The disclosure comes as the Pentagon informed Congress... Read More

WASHINGTON, DC – With energy costs rising and winter approaching, U.S. Senators Jack Reed (D-RI), Susan Collins (R-ME), and Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) are leading a bipartisan push for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to release... Read More

PROVIDENCE, RI -- September is National Suicide Prevention Month – a time to raise awareness, reduce stigma, share resources, and strengthen connections that can help save lives. To mark the occasion and highlight the importance of mental health... Read More

WASHINGTON, DC – Instead of addressing the affordability crisis, President Trump is making it worse and driving up prices at the gas pump, grocery store, and on all manner of day to day products and services. The Trump Administration’s tariff regime... Read More

WASHINGTON, DC – School infrastructure has an outsized impact on learning. But a new report from the nonpartisan U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) shows that more needs to be done to help school districts shore up school facilities and... Read More

WASHINGTON, DC -- After President Donald Trump rejected the idea of guardrails on artificial intelligence (AI), stating in a Truth Social post Monday that he alone is a sufficient guardrail against rogue artificial intelligence and claiming that any... Read More

CRANSTON, RI -- President Trump’s war of choice with Iran is in its sixth month and now diesel prices in Rhode Island have surged past $6 per gallon for the first time, to $6.03, below the national average of $6.20, according to AAA. Considered one... Read More

PROVIDENCE, RI – Tomorrow, the United States will mark the 25th anniversary of the September 11th terrorist attacks. Twenty-five years after terrorists launched a series of attacks on 9/11 that killed nearly 3,000 people at the World Trade Center in... Read More

PROVIDENCE, RI – In an effort to investigate and expose the Trump Administration’s blatant and unwarranted politicization of federal disaster aid, Rhode Island’s Congressional delegation sent a letter to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS)... Read More

PROVIDENCE, RI – Today, U.S. Senator Jack Reed, a leading member of the Appropriations Subcommittee on Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies (THUD), announced a $44.2 million boost for Rhode Island road and bridge work... Read More

WARWICK, RI – As the negative impacts of President Trump’s damaging economic policies ripple across the U.S. health care system, more Americans are losing their health insurance, health prices are going up, and more health systems are weakening --... Read More

PROVIDENCE, RI – With peak Atlantic hurricane season approaching, U.S. Senator Jack Reed today joined Providence Mayor Brett P. Smiley and members of the Rhode Island Congressional delegation to discuss hurricane preparedness and proactive... Read More

PROVIDENCE, RI – As President Trump’s irresponsible war with Iran crosses the half-year mark with escalating conflict and no end in sight, and still with no coherent strategy or endgame from the Trump Administration, U.S. Senator Jack Reed (D-RI)... Read More

PROVIDENCE, RI -- Rather than addressing the affordability crisis and lowering prices, the Trump Administration today rolled out a new $1 gold-colored coin with President Donald Trump’s face on it. In keeping with the logic of ‘Trumponomics,’ a... Read More

PROVIDENCE, RI -- Last week, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) issued a warning that crypto ATM fraud is on the rise. Crypto scammers use sophisticated methods to target older Americans, contact them and use threats, intimidation, and... Read More

WASHINGTON, DC—Today, after Secretary of the Army Dan Driscoll announced his resignation, U.S. Senator Jack Reed (D-RI), a West Point graduate and former U.S. Army officer who serves as Ranking Member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, issued... Read More

WASHINGTON, DC—Today, following reports that President Trump and Secretary Hegseth have directed the Department of Defense to take a 35 percent stake in a private equity firm engaging in preferential purchase rights of Venezuelan oil production, U.S.... Read More

PROVIDENCE, RI – Today, U.S. Senator Jack Reed, Congressman Gabe Amo, and Providence Mayor Brett P. Smiley gathered with community members at the DaVinci Center to prepare lunch and celebrate a new federal investment to help the DaVinci Center expand... Read More

WASHINGTON, DC – Today, U.S. Senator Jack Reed (D-RI), the top Democrat on the Senate Armed Services Committee, issued the following statement marking the sixth month of President Trump’s war with Iran. “President Trump has entangled the United... Read More

PROVIDENCE, RI — As demand grows for skilled engineers and technicians to power Rhode Island's advanced manufacturing, marine, and clean energy sectors, U.S. Senators Jack Reed and Sheldon Whitehouse and Representatives Seth Magaziner (RI-02) and... Read More