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June 9, 2025

WASHINGTON, DC – Today, Rep. Bennie G. Thompson (MS-02), Ranking Member of the Committee on Homeland Security, and Rep. Seth Magaziner (RI-02), Ranking Member of the subcommittee on Counterterrorism and Intelligence, released the following statement on President Trump putting a 22-year-old college graduate and Trump campaign worker with zero experience in charge of the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) Center for Prevention Programs and Partnerships (CP3):


June 6, 2025

WASHINGTON, DC — Today, U.S. Representative Seth Magaziner (D-RI-02) joined Reps. Dan Crenshaw (R-TX-02) and Nick Begich (R-AK-AL) to introduce the bipartisan, bicameral Fighting Foreign Illegal Seafood Harvest (FISH) Act, legislation to confront foreign illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing. 


June 6, 2025

WASHINGTON, DC — Today, U.S. Representatives Seth Magaziner (RI-02) and Glenn Ivey (MD-04) introduced new legislation to prevent President Trump, or any future president, from being able to personally profit from lucrative civil lawsuits while in office.


June 2, 2025

WARWICK, RI — On Monday, June 2, 2025, U.S. Representative Seth Magaziner (RI-02) joined Rhode Islanders whose lives have been affected by gun violence, local leaders in gun safety advocacy, and members of Rhode Island law enforcement to reintroduce his Prevent Illegal Gun Sales Act


June 2, 2025

Rep. Seth Magaziner reintroduced a bill to crack down on illegal gun sales.

The Prevent Illegal Gun Sales Act focuses on strengthening measures for firearm dealers who are selling illegally, falsifying records and providing firearms to firearms traffickers.


June 2, 2025

The Trump administration is coming under scrutiny for deporting several U.S. citizen children along with their foreign-born parents.

Trump officials have defended the move, saying the minors were not deported, rather the parents have elected to take them along rather than be separated from their children.

But attorneys for the families involved in such cases say their clients were given little notice and forced to make split-second decisions about what to do with children born in the United States.


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).

The proposed cuts weren’t exactly a surprise.


May 30, 2025

WASHINGTON, DC – On Thursday, May 29, 2025, U.S. Rep. Seth Magaziner (RI-02) released the following statement in response to news that the Trump Administration will shut down Exeter Job Corps, along with most Job Corps centers nationwide. 

“I’m deeply concerned by news that the Trump Administration will close the Exeter Job Corps Center, along with most Job Corps centers nationwide, and by the impact this will have on pathways to good-paying jobs here in Rhode Island.


May 23, 2025

WASHINGTON, DC –  U.S. Rep. Seth Magaziner (RI-02), a member of House Democrats’ Litigation and Rapid Response Task Force, along with other Democratic colleagues, filed an amicus brief challenging President Donald Trump’s sweeping and chaotic tariffs, unlawfully imposed under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA).


May 23, 2025

Washington, DC – U.S. Representative Seth Magaziner (RI-02) today issued the following statement after a federal court ruling blocked the Trump Administration from dismantling the Department of Education.