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Three Democratic senators led a letter to Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) personnel Tuesday asking for details on Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency’s (DOGE) access to disaster victims’ data. In a letter Tuesday to acting FEMA Administrator Cameron Hamilton, Sens. Peter Welch (Vt.), Adam Schiff (Calif.) and Alex Padilla (Calif.)…

Sen. Peter Welch of Vermont will send a letter to FEMA expressing concern about Musk’s involvement, National Journal has exclusively learned. People from various relief agencies guide people impacted by the wildfires at a FEMA Disaster Recovery Center in Pasadena, California, last month. (AP Photo/Etienne Laurent) First…

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.) today reacted to reporting that Elon Musk’s so called “Department of Government Efficiency,” or DOGE, has started to review disaster recovery grant programs at FEMA, and gained private and sensitive data of disaster victims:   “Disaster-impacted communities in…

A GROUP OF state and local politicians (including U.S. Sen. Peter Welch and Gov. Phil Scott in the middle), affordable housing advocates (Gus Seelig next to Welch), Middlebury College officials (Interim President Steve Snyder on left) and developers on Monday each lifted a shovelful of…

WASHINGTON, D.C.—U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.) released the following statement on the Trump Administration firing January 6th prosecutors at the Department of Justice and reportedly targeting hundreds of F.B.I. agents, including some who investigated the insurrection: “The President wants the Department of Justice to answer…

“We’ve just got to name it for what it is: President Trump believes chaos is an instrument of persuasion,” U.S. Sen. Peter Welch (D-Vt.) said on Wednesday. U.S. Sen. Peter Welch (D-Vt.) - FILE: JAMES BUCK President Donald Trump’s administration has rescinded a memo that…

Kennedy appeared on Wednesday and Thursday in front of the Senate’s finance and health committees, giving independent Sen. Bernie Sanders and Sen. Peter Welch, a Democrat, a chance to weigh in. Bernie Sanders, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Peter Welch are pictured in Vermont. File…