News Releases

WASHINGTON, DC – Today, after Charlie Kirk, co-founder of a young conservatives organization, was shot at an event at Utah Valley University, U.S. Senator Jack Reed condemned the assassination attempt, stating: “I strongly condemn this reprehensible... Read More

WASHINGTON, DC – Nearly one week after President Trump hosted Polish President Karol Nawrocki at the White House, Poland’s military and NATO allies were forced to scramble air defenses in Poland overnight and shut down multiple airports after Russian... Read More

WASHINGTON, DC – Today, U.S. Senator Jack Reed (D-RI), the Ranking Member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, delivered a speech on the Senate floor warning that President Trump’s unauthorized military strike in the Caribbean and unilateral order... Read More

WASHINGTON, DC – In an effort to erode the independence of the Federal Reserve and push the nation’s central bank to prioritize his own political interests, President Trump is seeking to install his White House economic advisor, Stephen Miran, to a... Read More

WASHINGTON, DC – Today, President Trump signed into law U.S. Senator Jack Reed’s (D-RI) legislation to ban abusive “trigger leads,” a practice where credit bureaus sell mortgage applicants’ data without consent, leading to a flood of unwanted calls,... Read More

WASHINGTON, DC – U.S. Senator Jack Reed today issued the following statement on the terrible August jobs report: “Nobody wants to see these kinds of dismal job numbers. But the way to improve them isn’t to deny them, fake them, fire the statistician,... Read More

PROVIDENCE, RI – U.S. Senators Jack Reed and Sheldon Whitehouse today convened a group of health care professionals, service providers, and community advocates at Providence Community Health Centers’ (PCHC) Prairie Avenue Health Center to discuss how... Read More

WASHINGTON, DC -- President Donald Trump is once again seeking to override Congress on bipartisan spending laws and is putting the country on a path to a federal government shutdown later this fall.   In an attempted end-run around Congress’ funding... Read More

WASHINGTON, DC -- Under the anti-vaccine views of U.S. Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., infectious diseases like measles that were once largely eliminated in the U.S. are now spreading rampantly throughout American... Read More

CRANSTON, RI – U.S. Senator Jack Reed (D-RI), the top Democrat on the Senate Armed Services Committee, and U.S. Representative Gabe Amo (D-RI), the Vice Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, traveled to Liberia and Ghana this week... Read More

PROVIDENCE, RI – U.S. Senator Jack Reed (D-RI) today issued the following statement on the passing of Judge Frank Caprio: “Frank Caprio uplifted many lives through his extensive career dedicated to service, including nearly four decades with the... Read More

PROVIDENCE, RI – U.S. Senators Jack Reed and Sheldon Whitehouse and Congressmen Seth Magaziner and Gabe Amo today issued the following joint statement following the ratification of a labor agreement struck between Butler Hospital and SEIU 1199NE,... Read More

WARWICK, RI – Today, U.S. Senators Jack Reed and Sheldon Whitehouse, along with U.S. Representatives Seth Magaziner (RI-02) and Gabe Amo (RI-01), issued the following statement in response to a Trump Administration order stopping all activities of... Read More

WASHINGTON, DC – Today, after President Donald Trump made a series of false claims about U.S. elections, pledged to “lead a movement to get rid of MAIL-IN BALLOTS” and voting machines, and inaccurately asserted that states must run elections in the... Read More

PROVIDENCE, RI — Mayor Brett P. Smiley and Providence Police Colonel Oscar L. Perez, Jr. today announced the launch of the City’s Real Time Crime Center (RTCC), the first of its kind in Rhode Island. This new state-of-the-art operations center,... Read More

QUONSET, RI – Federal, state, local, and military officials joined the Rhode Island Air National Guard today to celebrate the grand opening of the new 143rd Airlift Wing headquarters at Quonset Air National Guard Base. The modern 43,000-square-foot... Read More

WASHINGTON, DC – Today, after President Donald Trump met with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Alaska without Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky present to discuss the future of Ukraine, U.S. Senator Jack Reed (D-RI), the Ranking Member of the... Read More

WASHINGTON, DC – Ninety years ago, on August 14, 1935, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the landmark Social Security Act into law to provide secure, reliable retirement benefits for older Americans. Social Security is a social insurance program... Read More

PROVIDENCE, RI – U.S. prices continued to rise in July as President Trump’s reckless tariff taxes increase consumer costs and harm American workers and businesses. Prices were 2.7 percent higher last month compared with a year ago, and core inflation... Read More

WASHINGTON, DC – Today, after President Trump announced his plan to place the D.C. Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) under direct federal control and deploy the National Guard to the streets of Washington, DC, U.S. Senator Jack Reed (D-RI), the... Read More