Welch: “Why are we spending a billion dollars on a ballroom?”

This press release from Senator Peter Welch (D-VT) was published on 2026-05-21 and titled "Welch: “Why are we spending a billion dollars on a ballroom?”".

Welch: “Why are we spending a billion dollars on a ballroom?”

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’s historic East Wing. In his remarks, Senator Welch outlined just a fraction of the essential federally-funded programs and services that have been cut by the Trump Administration, which would benefit from $1 [ ]