Today, I am calling for an indefinite extension to the ceasefire in Gaza. My full statement ⬇️

Musk doesn’t have a mandate or the authority. It’s a gross overreach of executive powers, and on a human level-it’s cruel. These are disaster victims. To gut FEMA or withhold funding to a community recovering from a crisis would be beyond cruel. We need to fix FEMA, not kill it.

The creation of a Palestinian state has been long-standing US policy supported by presidents of both parties. Insinuating that we should forcibly displace Gazans to embark on a real estate venture isn’t just insulting, it would be a mass atrocity.

It’s good that the Trump Tariffs have been suspended. It’s bad that they were ever threatened in the first place.

President Trump has created mass confusion and panic. Freezing federal grants and loans without detailed guidance. Announcing tariffs and then retracting them days later. Threatening to invade Gaza on a whim. This is what governing by chaos looks like.

Russell Vought wants to use the federal government to help enrich millionaires and billionaires at the expense of the middle class.   I just joined every other Democratic Senator and voted against his confirmation.

Elon Musk didn't have any issue with USAID when it gave millions of dollars to his company Starlink. But now it's a "criminal organization?"

President Trump will pressure the Attorney General and the Justice Department to go after his political opponents and carry out his illegal agenda. I don't have confidence that Pam Bondi will stand up to him. I voted against her nomination.

RT @JudiciaryDems: Sen. WELCH on Kash Patel’s problematic FBI nomination: “With clarity, Kash Patel has a goal. It’s to wreck the FBI.” “W…

President Trump withdrawing the U.S. from the UN Human Rights Council is a huge mistake. Russia, Iran, and other human rights violators will use our absence to increase their influence.

Kash Patel has made it clear he's not going to serve the American people as FBI Director, he’s going to serve Donald Trump. He needs to come before the Committee again to explain his involvement in Trump’s retribution campaign at the FBI. We shouldn’t vote until that happens.

Democrats have been speaking on the floor all night to protest the nomination of Russell Vought. I took the 5am shift. And we’re still going.

RT @JudiciaryDems: Sen. WELCH before Pam Bondi’s confirmation vote: We need an Attorney General who will “share my shock” at a President ac…

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. doesn't have the right experience, character, or priorities to lead the Department of Health and Human Services. I voted against advancing his nomination out of the Finance Committee.

When climate change is threatening more lives than ever before, we can’t afford to have a fossil fuel executive as our Secretary of Energy. I voted against Chris Wright’s nomination.

President Trump temporarily backtracking on his trade war doesn’t give Vermont families, businesses, and farms the economic stability they deserve. Tariffs are taxes, and Trump has made it clear he's fine with raising taxes on American families.

Trump has fired January 6 prosecutors. He's fired independent agency watchdogs. He's reportedly targeting hundreds of career FBI agents. My colleagues should be clear on what this is: a plan to get revenge on his political opponents and a march towards authoritarianism.

Eliminating USAID is illegal and won't make America safer. It will allow diseases like HIV, Ebola, and measles to spread. It will cause millions who rely on food aid to go hungry. It will enable terrorism to flourish. Trump is helping China and Russia while weakening the U.S.

If you aren’t getting your dairy from Vermont, there’s a good chance you’re getting it from Canada. The next stack of pancakes you make is going to be a lot more expensive because of Trump’s tariffs.