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'This is about white supremacy' - Rep. Becca Balint on fighting the Trump administration
https://vtdigger.org/2025/06/25/vermont-conversation-this-is-about-white-supremacy-rep-becca-balint-on-fighting-the-trump-administration/David Goodman
“I don’t feel that this President plays chess. I feel like he makes decisions based on the whim at the moment … or where he thinks he is going to get that feeling that he craves.”
Just five months after being sworn in as president, Donald Trump has embroiled the U.S. in a shooting war in the Middle East, a trade war with our allies and neighbors, and a culture war with those who oppose his policies.
Trump has deployed the National Guard and the U.S. Marines into the streets of a major American city over the objections of a mayor and a governor, and unleashed masked agents to snatch unsuspecting immigrants off the streets and ship them off to foreign prisons.
This seemed like a good moment to check in with Rep. Becca Balint. Balint, D-Vt., was elected to Congress from Vermont in 2022 and is a member of the House Judiciary Committee and the Budget Committee. She serves on the Congressional Progressive Caucus as Vice Chair for New Members and as a Co-Chair of the Congressional Equality Caucus.
She spoke to me on Tuesday, June 24, from her congressional office in Washington D.C.
Trump has deployed the National Guard and the U.S. Marines into the streets of a major American city over the objections of a mayor and a governor, and unleashed masked agents to snatch unsuspecting immigrants off the streets and ship them off to foreign prisons.
This seemed like a good moment to check in with Rep. Becca Balint. Balint, D-Vt., was elected to Congress from Vermont in 2022 and is a member of the House Judiciary Committee and the Budget Committee. She serves on the Congressional Progressive Caucus as Vice Chair for New Members and as a Co-Chair of the Congressional Equality Caucus.
She spoke to me on Tuesday, June 24, from her congressional office in Washington D.C.
Podcast and transcript at link.
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