Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP)

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…

WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Senators Peter Welch (D-Vt.) and Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) this week introduced the Improving Access to Nutrition Act of 2025, legislation to help more Americans access the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), known as 3SquaresVT in Vermont. The Senators’ legislation would lift…