Low-Income Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP)

Welch offered amendment to Republicans’ budget resolution that would protect Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program from being zeroed out  WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.), Ranking Member of the Senate Agriculture Committee on Rural Development, Energy, and Credit, took to the Senate floor Monday evening to emphasize how President Trump’s threat to cut 100% of federal funding for the Low-Income Home…

Welch urged Secretary Kennedy to stop blocking LIHEAP funding  WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.), Ranking Member of the Senate Agriculture Subcommittee on Rural Development, Energy, and Credit, welcomed $20.7 million in federal funding for Vermont to support the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance…

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.), Ranking Member of the Senate Agriculture Subcommittee on Rural Development, Energy, and Credit, this week spoke on the Senate floor and urged the Trump Administration to release $4 billion in federal funds for the Low-Income Home Energy…

Federal LIHEAP funding helps 26,000 Vermonters  BURLINGTON, VT – U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.) today joined U.S. Senators Jack Reed (D-R.I.), Susan Collins (R-Maine), Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), and 27 bipartisan Senate colleagues in calling on the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to…

President Trump’s Fiscal Year 2026 budget would end LIHEAP program, which provides heating assistance for more than 26,000 Vermonters  WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.), a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, today grilled Dr. Alex Adams, President Trump’s pick to serve as Assistant…