Rep. Becca Balint
@RepBeccaB
Mom, Teacher, Vermonter, Writer & Congresswoman for VT, fighting for working families. @HouseJudiciary & @HouseBudgetDems. She/Her. Official. 🏳️🌈🏔️🏍️🍁
It's been reported that Trump has plans to erase the bedrock scientific finding that greenhouse-gas emissions, causing global warming, threaten human life. This lays the foundation to roll back any and all progress this country has made to fight climate change.
Breaking News: The EPA is said to have drafted a plan that would end its ability to regulate greenhouse gas emissions. nyti.ms/4m69zuH
The federal minimum wage has been $7.25 for 16 years now. Let's be honest, no one can live off of that. We need livable wages now.
Fork found in kitchen
Exclusive: The Justice Department told President Trump in May that his name is among many in the Epstein files on.wsj.com/4mcTIKV
Honored to meet with Mahmoud Khalil, a Columbia student who was unlawfully jailed by the Trump administration and missed the birth of his first child. This administration has no regard for free speech. Being thrown in jail for protesting is the definition of authoritarianism.

In case you were wondering why.
HOUSE will be done Wednesday afternoon. They are canceling Thursday and heading home until Sept. 2.
They said Roe would never be overturned. Then it was. They said no one's going to ban abortion. Then they did. We were not exaggerating then. We are not exaggerating now. We've known the whole time what their mission is: take away our rights.
In the middle of the night, Republicans jammed through $9 billion in cuts to public media and humanitarian aid. Millions of Americans rely on public TV and radio for free and factual news and lifesaving emergency alerts. Rural communities suffer while the rich get richer.
The crypto bills that the House passed today will help Trump and his family cash in. I voted no. For the record, 62% of voters support preventing Trump from profiting off crypto while in office.
Congress has had 2 chances this week to release the Epstein files. Republicans blocked it both times. These are people who rode these conspiracy theories into office. Now when we ask them about it, they look at their shoes. They won't make eye contact. They know they're wrong.
NEW: Dems and Republicans will play *together* in tonight’s Congressional Women’s Softball Game — which they say keeps the little bipartisanship left in Congress alive “We all have to do hard things,” one lawmaker said, “we can’t keep hating each other” notus.org/congress/congr…
If you don’t think the GOP is trying to ban abortion, you haven’t been paying attention. (with @RepBeccaB)
I'm proud to lead a task force to end corporate greed. Greedy billionaires and corporations run our lives and dictate the choices available to us. At the pharmacy, at the grocery store, when searching for a new home, you name it. It's time for the people to take our control…
Let's air out the Epstein files in the Judiciary Committee. Your move, @Jim_Jordan.
Enough is enough. Chairman @Jim_Jordan should bring AG Pam Bondi, Deputy AG Todd Blanche, FBI Director Kash Patel, and Deputy FBI Director Dan Bongino before the Judiciary Committee to reveal to Congress and America exactly what they know about the Epstein files.
UPDATE: Ro Khanna put forth an amendment yesterday to preserve and release the Epstein files. You guessed it, it was blocked by House Republicans. See the members below who voted NAY.
All the MAGA infighting over the Epstein files comes down to this: Trump knew this was a popular issue with his base, so he ran on it. Loudly and daily. Now he wants to bury it because he and his friends and his donors are probably implicated. Release the files.
New research shows that 259 farms filed for bankruptcy in just the first three months of 2025. That's more than in all of 2024. The most bankruptcy filings by farmers in the last decade was in 2019 with 599. Trump was President. Higher costs, loan programs slashed, and climate…
Trump is illegally withholding $7 billion promised to public schools. That means $26 million for Vermont's schools is at risk. He's already dismantled the Department of Education and wants to devastate public schools as well. Trump: Unfreeze the money for schools.
The Pentagon has signed a $200 million agreement to use Grok, Elon Musk's AI chatbot, according to xAI. Despite the social media wars, the Trump-Elon corruption machine is alive and well.
Here you go. It was never about "violent criminals" as they have repeated. Now they're saying the quiet part out loud: ICE is above the law, and the detentions are based on appearance.
Homan: "People need to understand ICE officers and Border Patrol don't need probable cause to walk up to somebody, briefly detain them, and question them ... based on their physical appearance."
An all time high of 79% say immigration is a good thing for the country. An all time low of 17% say immigration is a bad thing for the country. Trump, Stephen Miller, Kristi Noem, and ICE are beyond out of line.
