Vermont’s Congressional Delegation is again seeking answers from the Trump Administration about the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) program — this time over its proposed elimination.

The administration’s recently released 2026 budget proposal argues that the program is no longer necessary to subsidize heating and cooling costs. On May 28, Vermont’s delegation, Senators Bernie Sanders and Peter Welch, and Rep. Becca Balint, sent a joint letter to Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. seeking answers.

At the beginning of April, among thousands of job cuts announced by HHS, all federal staff who then ran the LIHEAP program were eliminated. The delegation wrote to Kennedy at that time but did not hear back. In the meantime, funds allocated to t

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