Posted on 04/24/2020 1:00:05 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., defended her "nay" vote during the House's largely bipartisan passage of a $484 billion coronavirus relief package on Thursday, calling it "too small."
The progressive lawmaker -- whose state has been ravaged by the coronavirus, with the highest numbers of infections and deaths in the country -- said the bill left out any real aid for Americans struggling to pay rent or purchase necessities including food after being left jobless or stranded due to the virus.
That, compounded with the lack of a timeline for another vote on additional aid, made her the single Democrat in the House to vote against the bill, she said.
"My concern is that we are giving away the farm," Ocasio-Cortez told reporters after the vote. "I cannot go back to my communities and tell them to just wait for CARES four because we have now passed three, four pieces of legislation that's related to coronavirus. And every time it's the next one, the next one, the next one, and my constituents are dying."
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This is the same chica who wants hard working Americans to stay home. Unemployed. Collecting welfare checks.
Instead of going back to work.
That’s what she said.
The only rat to vote ‘nay.’ Says a lot.
Bets on how many times we see that line. I'll take the over.
She is slightly horse faced.
Hahaha.
AOC says nay.
The cow says moo.
#VeryEducational
It’s good to make fun of her and mock her.
Just don’t underestimate her.
Bill is too small to stimulate her? Is that her boyfriend?
In Japan, they say that “the nail that stands up gets hammered down.”
Well, that may be true for Michigan State Rep. Karen Whitsett, but it doesn’t seem to hold for AOC. Star power confers certain privileges.
“AOC says it’s ‘too small’”
She’s talking about her brain?
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