Mom, Teacher, Vermonter, Writer & Congresswoman for VT, fighting for working families. @HouseJudiciary & @HouseBudgetDems. She/Her. Official. 🏳️🌈🏔️🏍️🍁
Vermont, USA
Joined December 2022
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All you've done for the last 15 years is try to repeal, defund, deauthorize, and dismantle the Affordable Care Act with no alternative. No alternative. Give me a damn break.
We’ll be unpacking what happened with this FAA ground stop for months.
But we’ve got to do everything we can to make sure this doesn’t happen again.
Americans have seen the Trump admin’s effort to gut science and research funding and programs and they don’t like it.
It’s a long road ahead but we absolutely must do all we can to rebuild our reputation around the world.
My friend, @Rep_McBride, is damn good at her job.
She listens, she builds coalitions, she gets the votes, and she’s funny as hell while doing it. We’re so lucky to have her! advocate.com/politics/nation…
We have a country that understands in a new way what going after corporate power means.
We're making antitrust sexy again, people!
Had to put my bike away for the winter recently. Not going to lie, it gets me down some years.
But after these last two weeks, I’m still flying high!
ALT Rep. Balint riding her motorcycle
We just passed the bipartisan Major Richard Star Act by a vote of 392-18! This bill will allow wounded veterans to keep more of their retirement and disability pay, and help more vets retire with dignity.
We have a sacred obligation to make sure veterans have the care they need when they come home, and this bill delivers on that obligation.
Republican leadership did all they could to stop this bill from coming to the floor, but we refused to give up. We'll never stop fighting for our vets.
Given this admin’s history of rubber-stamping mergers if the ultra-rich folks involved curry favor with Trump, @SenWarren and I led our colleagues in calling for an impartial review of this massive merger. They didn't listen.
Now, 100 million households may be forced to pay more for streaming. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
The Trump administration’s threats to members of Congress if we do our Constitutional oversight duties are absolutely pathetic.
Our power is the people’s power. We won’t be deterred.
Let's be crystal clear about what happened here: Republicans manipulated the rules and just passed a bill - on Veterans Day - that would made the largest cuts to veterans' benefits in history.
It's absolutely disgraceful. The American people should know where their representatives stood on this legislation. I would have been a strong NO.
I've long supported the bipartisan Major Richard Star Act which would actually allow more veterans to retire with dignity. Our veterans deserve better.
HOUSE MINORITY WHIP KATHERINE CLARK's office sent out this note to members about the TCAVA vote:
"After publicly announcing a recorded vote on TCAVA, House Republicans asked if RM Takano and Democrats would agree to last minute engrossment corrections. While RM Takano and staff were evaluating these changes away from the podium, House Republicans called the vote up and passed it by voice within minutes — depriving RM Takano of the ability to even evaluate the proposed changes and ask for a recorded vote so Members could vote against the biggest cut to veterans benefits in US history."
We need to pass a stock trading ban right out of the gate so that Americans understand we’re with them and not the corporations.
We just elected the queerest Congress in history… that we know of!
For four years, Republicans have been demonizing our community. And the American people fought back.
I’m proud of us!
As the proud daughter of a veteran, I know the sacrifices those who serve in our Armed Forces – and their families – need to make.
This Veterans Day, we give thanks to all our nation’s veterans and recommit to ensuring they have all the support they need when they get back home.
ALT Celebrating Veterans Day We give thanks to all those who have served our nation.
I’m deeply frustrated and disappointed that the impeachment resolution against Pete Hegseth failed on the House floor after Republicans voted it down.
In spite of the GOP’s resistance, we will not let this go.
Americans feel like their agency is being taken away by corporations who are creating technologies with no roadblocks and injecting massive amount of money into our politics.
Proud to be on a panel at @GWAction’s Popular Mandate today digging into the need for regulating AI.
ALT Rep. Balint participating in the panel
ALT Rep. Balint participating in the panel
ALT Rep. Balint participating in the panel
ALT Rep. Balint and her fellow panelists
The Trump admin is STILL going out of its way to cut even more people off SNAP.
Per their own analysis, this new policy shift could cause an additional 6.3 million individuals to lose SNAP entirely. It's abhorrent. politico.com/news/2026/11/09…
I’m starting my day off by meeting with a school group and then with some of my new colleagues. So much hope for the future ☀️
Just got back to DC today and you can already feel it – there’s a very bright future ahead!
ALT Rep. Balint in front of the Capitol Building
Hegseth reportedly decided whether to promote people with decades of experience based on internet searches, whether they attended COVID-19 vaccine or International Women’s Day events, or were perceived as close to people Trump doesn’t like.
Add this to his disgraceful record leading the Pentagon.
EXCLUSIVE: For the first time, a Pentagon official explains exactly how @SecWar blocked the promotions of women and people of color from the military's most senior ranks. Some say the new process is illegal. My latest for @MSNOWNews ms.now/news/pete-hegseth-pen…
