Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP)

WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.) joined National Public Radio’s All Things Considered to discuss the ongoing shutdown fight and his bipartisan efforts to extend funding for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), which helps feed 42 million Americans.   The Trump Administration has…

Trump and Republicans’ so-called ‘One Big Beautiful Bill Act’ will kick millions off Medicaid and SNAP, explode deficits WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.), a member of the Senate Finance Committee, today proposed changes to President Trump and Senate Republicans’ disastrous One Big…

COLCHESTER, VT – U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.) yesterday joined Vermont Public’s Vermont Edition to discuss how harmful cuts in Republicans’ ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ to vital programs like Medicaid and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) will hurt the economy and hardworking Americans across the…

Nearly 65,000 Vermonters rely on SNAP benefits to feed their families WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.), Ranking Member of the Senate Agriculture Committee Subcommittee on Rural Development, Energy, and Credit, joined Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), and Senators Ben Ray Luján…

Senator Peter Welch [D-VT] during a visit to Bennington in August 2024.FILE U.S. Sen. Peter Welch, [D-Vt.], was joined by several of his colleagues as well as the governor of Oregon during a phone call with the media to discuss what could be the largest…