News Releases

PROVIDENCE, RI -- After the Trump Administration slighted T.F. Green airport in a “continuation of service” order for airlines receiving assistance under the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act (Public Law No.... Read More

PROVIDENCE, RI – After helping to secure approximately $150 million in emergency Medicaid funding for Rhode Island in the Families First Coronavirus Response Act (Public Law No. 116-127), U.S. Senator Jack Reed is urging the Trump... Read More

PROVIDENCE, RI – After helping to secure approximately $150 million in emergency Medicaid funding for Rhode Island in the Families First Coronavirus Response Act (Public Law No. 116-127), U.S. Senator Jack Reed is urging the Trump... Read More

PROVIDENCE, RI – As the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic negatively impacts airports around the country, causing them to lose revenue and cutback on services, U.S. Senator Jack Reed, the Ranking Member of the Appropriations Subcommittee on... Read More

PROVIDENCE, RI – After helping to secure approximately $150 million in emergency Medicaid funding for Rhode Island in the Families First Coronavirus Response Act (Public Law No. 116-127), U.S. Senator Jack Reed is urging the... Read More

PROVIDENCE, RI – In an effort to ensure local news outlets can continue to provide factual, reliable information about the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) during the pandemic, U.S. Senators Jack Reed and Sheldon Whitehouse are seeking new federal... Read More

WASHINGTON, DC – Seeking to ensure that workers in Rhode Island and nationwide are able to access needed assistance during the current coronavirus crisis, U.S. Senators Jack Reed and Sheldon Whitehouse this week joined 35 Democratic colleagues... Read More

WASHINGTON DC – U.S. Senators Jack Reed and Sheldon Whitehouse, along with Congressmen Jim Langevin and David Cicilline, today announced $7.25 million in federal grant funding to help eight Rhode Island health centers in the fight against... Read More

PROVIDENCE, RI – After helping to secure approximately $150 million in emergency Medicaid funding for Rhode Island in the Families First Coronavirus Response Act (Public Law No. 116-127), U.S. Senator Jack Reed is urging the Trump... Read More

PROVIDENCE, RI – U.S. Senator Jack Reed (D-RI) is backing a new interim emergency COVID-19 rescue package that includes $500 billion in federal funding to help hospitals, small businesses and workers, and states to urgently address the novel... Read More

WASHINGTON, DC – Today, after U.S. Secretary of Defense Mark Esper announced the resignation of Acting Navy Secretary Thomas Modly, U.S. Senator Jack Reed (D-RI), the Ranking Member of the Armed Services Committee,... Read More

WASHINGTON, DC – Today, after President Trump demoted the Pentagon’s top watchdog, removing him as chairman of the Pandemic Response Accountability Committee (PRAC), which Congress created to oversee the $2.2 trillion CARES Act... Read More

WASHINGTON, DC - U.S Senators Jack Reed and Sheldon Whitehouse, along with Congressmen Jim Langevin and David Cicilline, today announced a new $666,000 grant from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to support Rhode... Read More

WASHINGTON, DC -- After President Donald Trump announced his intent to elevate one of his own lawyers to be the Special Inspector General for Pandemic Recovery (SIGPR) and oversee a coronavirus bailout fund, U.S. Senator Jack Reed (D-RI), a senior... Read More

PROVIDENCE, RI – U.S. Senator Jack Reed (D-RI), the Ranking Member of the Armed Services Committee, says a national, coordinated stay-at-home agreement by all fifty states and U.S. territories is needed to effectively combat the novel... Read More

PROVIDENCE, RI – After successfully winning a major victory for seniors and retirees who rely on Social Security, U.S. Senators Jack Reed and Sheldon Whitehouse are seeking to do the same for millions of other Americans who receive Supplemental... Read More

PROVIDENCE, RI -- Today, after the Trump Administration granted Governor Gina M. Raimondo’s request to authorize the use of National Guard members for Rhode Island under Title 32, United States Code, section 502(f), to perform humanitarian... Read More

WASHINGTON, DC – After the U.S. Navy announced it will relieve Captain Brett Crozier, commander of the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN-71), who wrote a letter to Navy leadership asking for stronger measures to control a novel... Read More

PROVIDENCE, RI – As record numbers of Americans are out of work and filing for unemployment assistance, U.S. Senator Jack Reed is urging the Trump Administration to swiftly issue guidance to states and help get funds out the door and into the... Read More

WASHINGTON, DC – Following calls from U.S. Senators Jack Reed (D-RI), Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), Maggie Hassan (D-NH), Sherrod Brown (D-OH), and their colleagues, the U.S. Treasury Department has announced that Social Security recipients will... Read More