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US Representative Seth Magaziner decried the “absolute cruelty” of President Trump’s 2026 budget plan, which would slash nondefense domestic spending by $163 billion.
Trump’s plan, unveiled Friday, “guts” the US Agency for International Development, a key funder for a Rhode Island nonprofit that makes food for starving children, and the National Institutes of Health, which funds “the lifesaving research that is done here in Rhode Island and across the country,” Magaziner said on the Rhode Island Report podcast.
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. We talk with him about that, and some of the ways Rhode Island has been impacted by the president’s first few months in office. Also, State Senator Tiara Mack is against Providence Mayor Brett Smiley’s efforts to raise property taxes.
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.
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.
It comes as the Trump administration plans to fire more than 7,000 employees from the Social Security Administration. They're also closing field offices and cutting regional offices, including the one in Boston.
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.
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.
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.
Wood River Health is a federally qualified health center based in Hope Valley, which serves thousands of patients, many of whom rely on Medicaid for care. Wood River Health also operates a Westerly location and provides dental care on Block Island.
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.
Lawmakers say they are worried about potential layoffs and what that could do for weather forecasting and ocean research.
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.
Medicaid subsidizes Strong’s stay at the Bannister Center. He’s frightened, and more than a little upset, at recent talk that the program might suffer spending cuts at the federal level.
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.
Magaziner said he came to listen to seniors tell him how initiatives – such as the Retired Senior Volunteer Program (RSVP) – have impacted their lives. He said that also came to deliver a message, along with Cranston Mayor Kenneth Hopkins.