News Releases

WASHINGTON, DC – Today, U.S. Senators Jack Reed (D-RI) and Brian Schatz (D-HI) led a group of 15 senators in calling on the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) to follow the law and protect the confidentiality of responses collected through the... Read More

WASHINGTON, DC – Today, U.S. Senator Jack Reed (D-RI), Ranking Member of the Armed Services Committee, admonished the Trump Administration after Acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan released a long-awaited list of which authorized military... Read More

WASHINGTON, DC -- In an effort to help give a reprieve to Liberians living lawfully in the United States who are at risk of imminent deportation, U.S. Senator Jack Reed (D-RI) and U.S. Representative Donald M. Payne, Jr. (NJ-10) today led several of... Read More

WASHINGTON, DC – U.S. Senator Jack Reed issued the following statement on the possibility of President Trump declaring a national emergency: “There is no security emergency at the border, but President Trump’s actions could spark... Read More

WASHINGTON, DC -- In an effort to prevent thousands of Liberians living legally in the United States from being deported, members of Congress led by U.S. Senator Jack Reed (D-RI) and Congressman David Cicilline (D-RI), are introducing the Liberian... Read More

WASHINGTON, DC – Today, the U.S. Senate voted on two competing proposals to end the Trump shutdown and reopen the federal government.  Both measures required 60 votes to advance, and neither proposal garnered enough for passage. President... Read More

WASHINGTON, DC -- Today, U.S. Senator Jack Reed (D-RI), Ranking Member of the Armed Services Committee, issued the following statement on President Trump’s wall demands: “Tonight, President Trump failed to make a convincing case for his... Read More

WASHINGTON, DC - Today, U.S. Senator Jack Reed (D-RI), Ranking Member of the Armed Services Committee, issued the following statement after President Trump threatened to use emergency powers to try to use U.S. Department of Defense funds and military... Read More

WASHINGTON, DC – Senate Armed Services Ranking Member Jack Reed (D-RI) today sent a letter to President Trump outlining the need for effective border security and opposing President Trump’s inflammatory rhetoric and hasty call to redirect... Read More

WASHINGTON, DC – Today, after President Trump contradicted himself and signed an executive order to replace his controversial policy that has resulted in thousands of children being separated from their parents at the border and replacing it... Read More

PROVIDENCE, RI – U.S. Senators Jack Reed and Sheldon Whitehouse are joining with Rhode Islanders in calling on the Trump Administration to end its policy choice of involuntarily separating children from their migrant mothers and fathers at the... Read More

WASHINGTON, DC – Today, after President Trump announced his decision to terminate Deferred Enforced Departure (DED) for Liberia and authorized a delayed effective date of March 31, 2019 for Liberians living in the Unites States, U.S.... Read More

WASHINGTON, DC - Today, after President Donald Trump retweeted a series of inflammatory Islamophobic posts – at least one of which had already been debunked - from a British far-right account rife with anti-Muslim content, U.S. Senator... Read More

WASHINGTON, DC - Today, after the Trump Administration announced plans to effectively end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, which has permitted nearly 800,000 undocumented immigrants who were brought to the United States... Read More

WASHINGTON, DC – U.S. Senator Jack Reed issued the following statement today after President Trump pardoned the controversial former Sheriff Joe Arpaio, an ardent Trump campaign supporter, who was convicted in July of criminal... Read More

WASHINGTON, DC – Today, after the Trump Administration issued a revised executive order banning immigration from several majority Muslim nations, U.S. Senator Jack Reed (D-RI), the Ranking Member of the Armed Services Committee, issued the... Read More

WASHINGTON, DC – Today, U.S. Senator Jack Reed (D-RI) joined U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-NM) and other Senate Democrats in introducing S. 229, the Protect DREAMer Confidentiality Act of 2017, a bill to safeguard the private... Read More

WASHINGTON, DC – U.S. Senator Jack Reed issued a statement today after the U.S. Supreme Court’s 4-4 split decision on the case of United States v. Texas, which lets stand a lower court ruling against the President’s Executive Action... Read More

CENTRAL FALLS, RI – In an effort to assist immigrants on their path to citizenship, U.S. Senator Jack Reed today announced that Progreso Latino is receiving a $250,000 federal grant from the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services... Read More

WASHINGTON, DC – U.S. Senator Jack Reed (D-RI) today issued the following statement after a federal district court judge in Texas temporarily enjoined implementation of expanded Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) and Deferred Action... Read More