Who?
Rep. Becca Balint (D-VT) — Vice Ranking Member, House Judiciary Committee
LISTEN: Laslo & Balint
Ask a Pol asks:
Are Republicans hypocrites for hammering Democrats on socialism while the Trump administration takes equity stakes in private companies like Intel?
Key Balint:
“He’s using the words, you know, “socialism,” “communism,” “leftist” as rhetoric against us — and yet there are so many things happening in this administration that to any, like, sober outside observer would be like, that actually smacks of socialism,” Rep. Becca Balint exclusively tells Ask a Pol Politics. “It’s an interesting paradox.”
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Caught our ear:
“Especially when I sit in Budget or Judiciary [Committees], and the biggest way that they go after us all the time is on socialism,” Balint tells us. “And then you’re just like, but when your great leader does it…”
Below find a rough transcript of Ask a Pol Politics‘ exclusive interview with Rep. Becca Balint (D-VT), slightly edited for clarity.
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TRANSCRIPT: Rep. Becca Balint (3-26-2026)
SCENE: As Rep. Becca Balint’s heading to the floor of the House of Representatives to cast one of her last votes before Congress’s two-week Easter recess, she stops to chat with Ask a Pol founder Matt Laslo just outside the US Capitol.
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