The amount of money used to operate state government in Rhode Island has grown by 5 and a half billion dollars over the last 10 years, to $14.2 billion. Now, President Trump has put a spotlight on ...

RI's Office of the Auditor General and Office of Internal Audit routinely find waste and issues. But is anyone listening?

A Rhode Island federal judge ordered the Trump administration to unfreeze federal funds after plaintiffs argued it defied a ...

(Rhode Island hospitals already pay $211 million ... with the Department of Administration and the Office of Management and Budget, as well as federal partners, to find cost-saving opportunities ...

Here's where the cases stand, and what comes next: On Jan. 28, Rhode Island Attorney General Peter Neronha joined a fellow ...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WPRI) — Rhode ... balance the budget before the start of the 2025-26 fiscal year, 12 News has learned. The R.I. Department of Administration’s Office of Management and ...

Last month, five Rhode Island environmental nonprofits jointly sued the federal government over grant freezes threatening a ...

Nonprofit plaintiffs led by Rhode Island entities are arguing ... the two Biden-era laws should be frozen. The Office of Management and Budget subsequently directed federal agencies to terminate ...

The potential cuts affect various state departments, including Health, Education, and Environmental Management ... numbers in context: Rhode Island's $14 billion state budget relies on $ ...

"I call them the unsung heroes of government," said Brian Daniels, director of the state Office of Management and Budget. Or how about the fact that 1,640 people were still on Rhode Island’s ...