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Peter Welch: “If [the Trump administration] want to change something and…”

Featuring: Peter Welch, Democratic | U.S. Senate, Vermont

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Vermont Congressional Delegation Telephone Town Town Hall

Published | Video Starts at 41:39

And property taxpayers in Vermont are totally overstretched. It's brutal. But you know, the questions that so many people have asked about what happens, that's the burden that should be on the Trump administration. If [the Trump administration] want to change something and they claim it's better, they have to have a plan to make it better. And they have to have an answer to that very appropriate question. And they don't. So that's why, when I'm criticizing Doge, it's because they don't have a plan and they don't care to have a plan. (41:39–1:23:20)

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Asserts that the Trump administration lacks a plan for proposed changes to education funding.

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