‘Truly unprecedented times’: Hundreds tell R.I.’s congressmen about their frustration with the Trump administration

Retirees collecting Social Security and worried it will vanish. A researcher at Brown University whose funding was abruptly canceled. A woman whose relative holds a green card and fears she’ll be detained.

Those were just a handful of the stories shared Thursday evening during a packed town hall hosted by US Representative Seth Magaziner, which drew about 250 people.

Twenty miles away in Rhode Island’s other congressional district, at Riverside Middle School in East Providence, US Representative Gabe Amo and Attorney General Peter Neronha also met a riled-up crowd that wanted to know: what can be done to stop President Trump?

The two town halls were the first the Rhode Island congressmen have held since President Trump took office in January. [...] Read full article.