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May 30, 2025

President Trump’s new budget proposal calls for cutting the main source of federal funds for state and local libraries.

The president’s budget outline, released earlier this month, would eliminate a little known federal agency called the Institute for Museum and Library Services (IMLS).


May 9, 2025

Rep. Seth Magaziner provided an update on his push for a bill that would prevent members of Congress from trading stocks.

Magaziner told 12 News Friday he recently started meeting with other lawmakers who have proposed similar legislation to negotiate a “single, consensus bill” they can all get behind and work on passing.


May 8, 2025

US Representative Seth Magaziner decried the “absolute cruelty” of President Trump’s 2026 budget plan, which would slash nondefense domestic spending by $163 billion.


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.