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Rep. Becca Balint D-Vermont) held out all night against H.R.1, the Trump administration budget reconciliation bill, to no avail. It passed by a single vote this morning. C-Span images.
by Guy Page
H.R. 1, known officially as ‘The One, Big, Beautiful Bill Act’ that is a lynchpin of President Donald Trump’s economic policy, passed the U.S. House of Representatives by one vote shortly before 7 AM this morning. The bill now moves on to the U.S. Senate.
According to Congress.gov, H.R. is a reconciliation bill and includes legislation submitted by 11 House committees pursuant to provisions in the FY2025 congressional budget resolution (H Con. Res. 14) that directed the committees to submit legislation to the House Budget Committee that will increase or decrease the deficit and increase the statutory debt limit by specified amounts. (Reconciliation bills are considered by Congress using expedited legislative procedures that prevent a filibuster and restrict amendments in the Senate.)
Vermont Rep. Becca Balint (D) voted no, as did two Republicans. No Democrats voted in favor. On her X account this morning, Balint said the bill will ‘take food away from children.’
“What kind of nation are we when leaders choose to take food away from children? When they take health care away from people? When they kick the poor in the teeth while rewarding the richest among us? The bill Republicans passed in the dead of night is a moral failure,” Balint said on X this morning. “In their bill, Republicans passed steep cuts to food assistance, Medicaid, and put Medicare at risk. For me, that’s a moral line. It makes no sense in this time of incredible struggle when families are having such a hard time making ends meet to go after food assistance and Medicaid.”
Republicans in the White House and in Congress of course tell a different story. According to a press statement released by the White House this morning, the bill features:
The largest tax cut in history. This means $13,300 more for American families and wage increases up to $11,000 for workers with a double-digit percent decrease to their tax bills — plus no tax on tips or overtime, a tax cut on seniors’ Social Security benefits, an expanded child tax credit, and a tax deduction on American-made vehicles. Americans making between $30,000 and $80,000 per year will see their taxes cut by 15% next year.
Raising wages. American workers will see wage increases of up to $11,600; a typical family with two kids will see take-home pay rise by up to $13,300.
Strong border security. This makes President Trump’s border crackdown permanent with the largest investment ever — funding AT LEAST one million illegal immigrant deportations per year, thousands of miles of new border wall and barriers, 18,000+ new immigration officials, and pay raises for our great ICE and Border Patrol agents.
Protecting Medicaid for American citizens who need it. This ENDS taxpayer-funded benefits for at least 1.4 million illegal immigrants who are gaming the system and requires able-bodied Americans to work if they receive benefits.
Pay raises for troops. This increases special pay for servicemembers and gives them higher allowances for housing, healthcare, and family assistance.
Ending taxpayer-funded chemical castration and mutilation. It reverses the Biden-era mandate that Medicaid cover so-called “gender transition” procedures.
Modernizing air traffic control. This will allow President Trump to act where the Biden Administration failed by completely overhauling the systems that keep Americans flying safely and efficiently.
Revolutionizing the nation’s defense. This funds President Trump’s Golden Dome missile defense shield, restocks America’s arsenal, expands our naval fleet, and improves military readiness to meet the needs of a changing world.
Protecting family farmers. The bill prevents the greedy death tax from hitting two million family-owned farms that would otherwise see their exemptions cut in half and cuts taxes on farmers by over $10 billion.
Unleashing American energy dominance. The bill increases onshore and offshore oil and gas leases, spurs job growth, makes energy more affordable, and makes America less dependent on foreign adversaries.
Reversing runaway spending. This delivers $1.6 trillion in mandatory savings — the most in U.S. history and the largest deficit reduction in nearly 30 years.
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No doubt this vote will be reported (by some) as a mandate.
I do not feel I am represented by my congressman, since she has NEVER voted the way I would have liked her to. Thus, my wants are not represented by my representative. I feel abandoned.
I agree and she’s outright lying. They aren’t cutting benefits for anyone that deserves to receive them. So children aren’t going to go hungry. Unless they are kids of illegals! They can take their $1000.00 and plane tickets and go home. I don’t pay taxes to support them! She definitely doesn’t represent me at all either. She supports everything that I absolutely oppose!
Baliant needs to go back to NY!! She couldn’t get elected there so she had to move to VT to get elected. Definitely does not represent a good portion of Vermonters.
Becca Balint, Vermonts self proclaimed ” Scrappy Little Dyke ” really showed them that she’s a hold out, she was told hold the DemocRATic line…………that’s all.
I guess, she’s the best we could find ??…… just another DEI hire, pretty pathetic !!
Finally, one of the many reasons the Dems continue using a jackass as their mascot. The end.
Balint needs to understand that chronic deficit spending and servicing a $32 trillion national debt “will take food away from children”. She needs to acknowledge that the open border policies of her party’s past administration allowed fentanyl to kill 200,000 Americans, and that has “taken food away from children”. She should realize that sensationalist and provocative statements such as hers along with the constant refrains of “Trump is Hitler”, “Elon is a nazi”, “Constitutional crisis”and “threat to democracy” are largely ineffective and damaging to the credibility of her own party and the mainstream media which carries their water.
Is she Irish American?
If so…What do you call two,” Scrappy Little Dykes” ?
Gaelic’s.
Close call but no cigar, on this one, she took a lickin’ !
Vote her out!
That’s the kind of off topic vulgarity that might be expected from the Left.
Guy Page and Paul Bean, do an extraordinary job attempting to present both sides of a Story .
While we see Mocking bird media rant in Unison the pre prescribed word of the day , today the word was Ambushed .
https://x.com/JJMeredith1/status/1925400810415960278
Vermont Daily Chronicle, never joins that theater.
The Progressive party is equally as coordinated in their rants, while rarely truthful they indeed Beat the rants in Unison , classically reinforced my the media.
Ironically they are loosing their marbles , 80 % of the nation now gets their news from alternate scourses , the NPR , PBS, VT Public , 7 Days and VT Digger control is slipping rapidly .
MSM is in the Sewer .
God it’s a Great time to be Alive .
Mark Coester
Vermont’s own scrappy little Orc, joined by a couple of GOP goblins and all the other orcs, failed in their effort to sack Gondor and crush its people into penury. They will try again.
Becca can you start to face the fact that the money that keeps all of this going is coming to a STOP, cause the USA is broke. You and the Vt Progressives did a good job at scaring away all of the private sector employers that Vermont desperately needs and replaced them with government/NGO/Green Energy jobs. Now we have a system that will no longer fund its largess. So the collapse of this government tower of Babel is imminent and your grandstanding while VtBugger NPR VPR and the rest of the Burlington media echo chamber cheer you on. Perhaps its time to do something about it rather than crying about the lack of other peoples money? But then again expecting you to fix a system you broke is not going to happen.
Guess you forgot the mayor of Burlington giving her husband a twelve thousand dollar raise reported by TEL. LIE. VISION. Must be fake news.
Balint looks vulnerable to me…….what state is she truly from? Does she run on her own money or from donor contributions?
Heidleberg, Germany. Educated at Harvard, U. Mass. Amherst. Raised inPeekskill, N.Y. She moved here in 1994. Yup, that makes her a Vermonter ! Like Boinie, and Peter Welch . Heaven forbid the people of Vermont elect a real Vermonter to represent us .
Lord help us ! What did we the people of the state of Vermont do to deserve the piss poor representation that the urban refugees of this state seem intent on electing to office to represent us ? Is there no one with a lick of common sense that is willing to try to dislodge these socialist dumbasses from their perches of power ?
You make a great point Patrick. The problem is that most of the good Republican ‘would-be’ candidates have left the state for better pastures. The few remaining R’s already know they’ll be defeated by the overwhelming majority of D’s many of whom don’t understand who their ‘leaders’ are. After all, in VT one just votes Democrat mindlessly without asking good questions.
marysed5, “in VT one just votes Democrat mindlessly” You nailed that one !
This Congresswoman never gives solutions, just always votes against everything because it is Trump. She definitely has DTS. Stop with the fear mongering.
A real slap in the face to those of us that were born here and lived here our whole lives. I have over seventy years invested in this state and am treated like I don’t matter.
Wow our “Scrappy Little Dyke” (her words not mine) is at it again. Again on
the wrong side of it all. Time for a replacement.
You have to admit the S. L. D. has taken the spot light off John Rogers. Will not give her credit for her own words. The dog and pony show keeps moving forward.
As usual, the self proclaimed “scrappy little dyke” is lying. Children are not going hungry, no one is taking their food awy, no one is taking their healthcare. Medicaid, Medicare, Social Security are not being cut, they are getting an overhaul and become efficient and effective for users, its about cutting thecwaste, fraud and abuse that Becky and her Party have been screwing hardworking Americans for years.
The only “kick in the teeth” Becky is the horrible policies that you and your BIG government Party has been pushing for 50 years.
What about the pther great pieces in this ONE BIG BEAUTIFUL bill Becky, No tax on Tips and Overtime pay and SS tax cut by with a $4K credit for Seniors, Strengthing our Borders and building the Wall. With out this bill, individuals will realize a 20% tax increase and a 22% on businesses.
This woman needs to go. We need a great candidate against her next November 2026!
#DefeatBecky2026
@MarkCoester on X.com
Let’s encourage him to run again in 26
Defeat Becca 26
Has anyone caught on that Big Beautiful Bill has the same ring as Build Back Better? Is bbb code for 666? The theater of the absurd, all full of symbolism and talking in codes. Red team, blue team – crips and bloods – we are being led down a road to ruin by tricksters and reprobates. “The economy is doing great.” Best be prepared and brace for impact.
‘Red Team’ ~ ‘Blue Team’ … reminds me of the song by Iyah May that went viral; “Karmageddon” ~ written by a young M.D. from Australia…
Apparently she didn’t want to participate in the Hospital Industrial Complex’s “Killing Fields” of Fauci’s Deadly protocol of Remdesivir (nephrotoxin) and Ventilators, so she took to song writing.
‘Karmageddon’ by Iyah May
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y29kmnhjtc8
Hey, let up on her. Shes only a commie doing what her masters tell her to do.
She’s a Commie for sure but let up on her? NEVER! Her masters need to go also!
Suck a rotten egg! This woman is all about her self, not her constituents!! Vermonters love this socialistic malarkey spawned by the non-illustrious Bernard Sanders. It is sickening.
Vermonters wake up, you are being duped by our Washington non-representatives.
I am very concerned that this bill significantly reduces funding for Medicaid and food assistance. In addition, it removes the President from court oversight. So not only are we robbing from those families who need assistance while benefitting the wealthy, we are leaning toward a dictatorship form of government. We can no longer fool ourselves in thinking that America bestows kindness toward its citizens and it gives our President the right to ignore our laws. I am sad and angry that I am watching our country become mean-spirited and subject to a lawless leader. I sincerely hope the “big, beautiful bill” will be voted down in the Senate. It is a disgraceful testament to our values as Americans.
BYE-BYE and good Riddance on November 3rd 2026 . Get-R-Done Vermonters Get-R-Done!!