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BURLINGTON, VT - Today, U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.) announced that Vermont farmers and producers affected by crop losses from natural disasters in 2023 and 2024 can now submit applications for assistance from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Supplemental Disaster Relief Program. More than…

President Donald Trump visited Texas Friday to assess the damage of last week’s floods that have killed more than 120 people and left around 160 more missing. The visit comes as local officials are expressing concern that cost controls are slowing down the Federal Emergency…

Welch’s Disaster AID Act filed on the anniversaries of Vermont’s July 2023 and July 2024 floods     WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.) commemorated the anniversaries of the July 2023 and July 2024 floods today from the Senate Floor. Senator Welch also urged Congress…

Welch’s Disaster AID Act filed on the anniversaries of Vermont’s July 2023 and July 2024 floods   Legislation would cut red tape and improve processes for FEMA’s Public Assistance and long-term recovery efforts  WASHINGTON, D.C.—U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.) today introduced the Disaster Assistance Improvement and…

Welch Defends Corporation for Public Broadcasting, National Public Radio, Public Broadcasting Service  WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.), a member of the Senate Finance Committee, spoke out against President Trump’s request to cut $9.4 billion in federal funding—which was already appropriated by…

Welch also joined letter to DHS requesting information about ICE’s use of unidentified plainclothes agents  WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.) joined U.S. Senators Alex Padilla (D-Calif.) and Cory Booker (D-N.J.) in cosponsoring new legislation to require immigration enforcement officers to display clearly…

**THURSDAY** Introduction of the Disaster Assistance Improvement and Decentralization (AID) Act will mark the anniversaries of catastrophic flooding across Vermont on July 10-11, 2023, and July 10-11, 2024  WASHINGTON, D.C.—U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.) will hold a Pen and Pad with reporters this Thursday to…