Becca Balint sold stocks including Adobe, Intuit and Netflix before taking office in January 2023.
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… education trusts in her assets. Balint, a Democrat, said in a statement to NOTUS that she does not trade “any individual stocks because I don’t ever want Vermonters to question the integrity of my decisions or my vote.” Balint sold the few stocks she owned before taking office in January 2023. She disclosed owning stocks including Adobe, Intuit and Netflix valued at “none” in 2022. The stocks were gone when she filed her 2023 financial disclosure report, which covered her first year in office. “They appear on that report only because there was income generated from their sale. …
None of the sources mention Adobe, Intuit or Netflix, or any sale of stock by Balint before January 2023, so the central assertion cannot be graded. The extracted claim also drops the passage's qualifiers that she sold only "the few stocks she owned" and that the holdings were valued at "none" in 2022.
What we found
Context. Ballotpedia (unrated) says Balint assumed office on January 3, 2023, which matches the claim's timing, but it says nothing about her stock holdings or sales.[3]
Context. VTDigger (unrated) reports that Balint did not report owning any individual stocks on her most recent personal financial disclosures. This concerns a later filing and does not address a pre-2023 sale of Adobe, Intuit or Netflix shares, so it neither confirms nor refutes the claim.[4]
Context. The remaining sources are campaign finance data, Clerk biographical data, a parody video, a bill-tracking page, a scorecard and stock-tracker profile pages. None names Adobe, Intuit or Netflix or describes a Balint stock sale.[1][2][5][6][7][8][9][10][11]
Context. Extraction fidelity: the passage says she sold "the few stocks she owned" and disclosed those holdings at "none" in 2022. The extracted claim states the sales as fact and drops the "none" valuation, so it is graded here as written. The passage itself is the claimant's words and is not evidence.
Sources
11 sources: 2 primary, 9 not rated
- 1BECCA BALINT FOR VERMONT - committee overviewfec.gov · primary source · cited for: context
- 2Becca Balint - Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representativesclerk.house.gov · primary source · cited for: context
- 3Becca Balintballotpedia.org · not rated · cited for: context
- 4Vermont's congressional members are rich. But they don't ...vtdigger.org · not rated · cited for: context
- 5Democratic candidates for governor try to rouse voters ...vermontpublic.org · not rated · cited for: context
- 6Did Balint Say Farmers Could Leave? She Voted Against ...facebook.com · not rated · cited for: context
- 7The Online Sellers' Bill of Rights Has a Counterfeiter Problemnetchoice.org · not rated · cited for: context
- 8It's past time to BAN CONGRESSIONAL STOCK TRADING ...instagram.com · not rated · cited for: context
- 9Rep. Becca Balint - Scorecard 119: 0%heritageaction.com · not rated · cited for: context
- 10Becca Balint Trading Activityquiverquant.com · not rated · cited for: context
- 11Becca Balint Stock Trades & Portfoliounusualwhales.com · not rated · cited for: context
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- Becca Balint has a median net worth of more than $1.6 million according to her 2024 financial report.True
- In 2021, Peter Welch failed to properly disclose that his wife sold $6,238 worth of ExxonMobil stock around the time he was questioning the oil company’s CEO at a House committee oversight hearing.True
- Becca Balint is a co-sponsor of the Restore Trust in Congress Act, introduced by Rep. Chip Roy in 2025.True