'This is about white supremacy' - Rep. Becca Balint on fighting the Trump administration

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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.

Podcast and transcript at link.

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1. YUP and aka eugenics