Welch: "Why are we spending a billion dollars on a ballroom?"
May 21, 2026
May 21, 2026
WASHINGTON, May 21 -- Sen. Peter Welch, D-Vermont, issued the following news release:
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Welch: "Why are we spending a billion dollars on a ballroom?"
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WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.), a member of the Senate Finance Committee, took to the Senate floor to underscore how President Trump is trying to swindle hardworking American taxpayers to pay for his $1 billion vanity project to reconstruct the White House' . . .
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Welch: "Why are we spending a billion dollars on a ballroom?"
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WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.), a member of the Senate Finance Committee, took to the Senate floor to underscore how President Trump is trying to swindle hardworking American taxpayers to pay for his $1 billion vanity project to reconstruct the White House' . . .