Washington, D.C. – U.S. Senator Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-Del.) and Senate Veterans’ Affairs Committee Ranking Member Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.)announced they will be introducing legislation this week to replace the VASP Program and ensure veterans and servicemembers using Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) home loans can keep their homes as the Trump administration’s rushed cancellation of the Veterans Affairs Servicing Purchase Program (VASP) is carried out today, May 1. “Veterans facing foreclosure deserve a viable solution to get their mortgage current and keep their homes. Secretary Collins’ decision to end the VASP Program without consulting Congress, veterans, or service lenders was an act of consummate cruelty and incompetence — potentially leaving tens of thousands of veterans at

Washington, D.C. – U.S. Senator Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-Del.), member of the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee, Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Ranking Member of the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee, and Senator Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.), Ranking Member of the Senate Budget Committee, led 19 Senators in a letter to President Trump making clear how his chaotic, across-the-board tariffs are increasing housing costs for Americans already struggling to afford rent or achieve their dream of homeownership. Today’s letter follows last night’s Senate vote when almost every Senate Republican bent the knee to President Trump by voting against a resolution to end his

Washington, D.C. — Today, U.S. Senator Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-Del.) joined Senators Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), and Alex Padilla (D-Calif.) in leading the bicameral reintroduction of the Assault Weapons Ban of 2025, legislation to revive a nationwide ban on assault weapons two decades after the original ban expired. The bill would ban the sale, transfer, manufacture, and import of military-style assault weapons, high-capacity magazines, and other high-capacity ammunition feeding devices.  While the 1994 ban was in place, the United States saw gun massacres decline by 37% and mass shooting fatalities were 70% less likely. When the ban expired, deaths in a gun massacre rose 239%. A ban on