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May 2, 2025

U.S. Representative Seth Magaziner has been taking to the House floor to protest President Trump’s cuts to funding for life-saving food for malnourished children.


April 30, 2025

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.


April 15, 2025

Congressman Seth Magaziner and Sen. Jack Reed addressed the Trump administration’s cuts to jobs at Social Security Tuesday in Providence.

State leaders met with seniors at St. Martin De Porres Center on Cranston Street.


April 4, 2025

Concerns about democracy — and impatience about how Democrats are responding to President Donald Trump — dominated a town hall staged by Second District U.S. Rep. Seth Magaziner on Thursday night at the Swift Community Center in East Greenwich.


March 20, 2025

Farm Fresh Rhode Island has been forced to reduce its 48-person workforce by eight employees because of the Trump administration’s cuts to federal programs that support farmers and fishermen.


March 3, 2025

Wood River Health President and CEO Alison Croke will be U.S. Rep. Seth Magaziner’s guest at President Trump’s address to the nation this evening.

The speech will be Trump’s first to a joint session of Congress in his second term.


March 3, 2025

Representative Seth Magaziner hosted a roundtable discussion about the White House’s cuts to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

The federal agency supports thousands of jobs in Rhode Island's fishing and aquaculture industry.


February 28, 2025

Gregory Strong used to install fiberglass insulation and vinyl siding, and even co-owned a business. But after an accident left him unable to walk and requiring use of a wheelchair, Strong now lives at a nursing home in Providence. 


February 5, 2025

With confusion and concern swirling around exactly what a federal funding freeze will mean for state and local programs, U.S. Representative Seth Magaziner visited the Cranston Senior Center last week.


January 26, 2025

A new letter from Rhode Island’s congressional delegation to the federal Office of Management and Budget asks the office’s acting director, Matthew Vaeth, to confirm that all previously approved funding for local projects will be released to the state.