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Rep. ­Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) has been getting a lot of attention since being sworn in to Congress earlier this year, but her constituents aren’t all that thrilled with their 29-year-old congresswoman, according to a story published in the New York Post over the weekend. “I thought AOC would be our savior, but that’s not the case,” Roxanne Delgado, a local activist told the Post. Delgado has reportedly been trying “for months” to get in touch with Ocasio-Cortez about saving an animal shelter and cleaning up parks in the district. According to the Post, Delgado “has made numerous calls to Ocasio-Cortez’s...

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez livestreamed herself drinking wine and assembling IKEA furniture. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) may be in Congress now, but her Wednesday nights still consist of some pretty normal stuff. As BuzzFeed News' Vera Bergengruen pointed out on Twitter, Ocasio-Cortez spent her evening drinking wine, assembling IKEA furniture, and chatting about politics. The difference between the congresswoman and her constituents? More than 8,000 people tuned into an Instagram livestream to watch her do it. Ocasio-Cortez's livestreams often attract attention, like when she discussed the fear of bringing children into a world affected by climate change. The Washington Post even wrote...

On Instagram Live Wednesday night, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez spoke to critics who laugh and make jokes about her often-repeated statement that "we have twelve years left to cut emissions by at least 50%" to stop the most devastating effects of climate change. "For everyone who wants to make a joke about that, you may laugh, but your grandkids will not," she warned. "So, understand that the internet documents everything." "For those of you who are trying to mock and delay this moment, I mean, I just feel bad for you. I pity you for your role in history right now,"...

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez took a shot at President Trump’s response to Monday’s congressional request for his tax returns, tweeting “we didn’t ask you.” The twitter jab from the freshman congresswoman came hours after the House Ways and Means Committee asked the IRS to release Trump’s 2013 through 2018 tax returns. When Trump was later asked about the formal congressional request, he told reporters, “until such time as I’m not under audit, I would not be inclined to do it.” Ocasio-Cortez mockingly recapped the exchange on Twitter. “Congress: ‘We’re going to need a copy of the President’s tax returns from 2013-2018,’”...

In a tweet Wednesday, U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., suggested that House Democrats won't be taking no for an answer in seeking access to President Trump's tax returns. The freshman congresswoman boiled her view of the situation down to the following mock conversation between Congress and the president: "Congress: 'We’re going to need a copy of the President’s tax returns from 2013-2018.' "45: 'No, I’m ‘under audit.' "Congress: 'We didn’t ask you.' "

Former Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) said Tuesday that he doesn't believe freshman Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) listened much to the advice he gave her about being one of the youngest members of the House. In an interview Tuesday night at the annual dinner for Forward Jainesville, a community organization based in his hometown, Ryan quipped that he thought Ocasio-Cortez had ignored his advice while revealing that he had met the New York congresswoman after her election victory last year. "I talked to her, AOC — everybody calls her AOC ... She's the youngest person now there. I gave her just...

“I don’t think she really listened to a thing. I said, you know, ‘Just take it easy, just watch things for a while," Ryan said of the social media wunderkind, who is trying to push House Democrats to the left through her Green New Deal and other proposals. Away from the Capitol's klieg lights, Ryan lamented an inability of legislators to reach compromises on big public policy issues. He cited entitlement reform, healthcare changes and immigration fixes. Improve those, “and we will have another spectacular American century,” he said. Ryan largely deflected questions on his working relationship with President Trump....

esponding to fresh criticism from President Donald Trump Tuesday evening that her Green New Deal climate change proposal was “ done by a young bartender,” Democrat Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez told Newsweek Wednesday that the “last guy who underestimated me lost.” “That’s all I gotta say about that,” she added. In an unexpected upset, the freshman New York congresswoman and former bartender unseated incumbent Democratic Congressman Joseph Crowley in her 2018 primary election. Ocasio-Cortez has faced continued criticism from Republicans and the president for her ambitious climate change proposal, which seeks to achieve net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2030 and for the...

Tuesday at the House Oversight and Reform Committee hearing on potential subpoenas related to the White House overriding denied security clearances, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) wondered if the Trump administration was capable of “putting nuclear codes in Instagram DMs.”

by Jenn Carter President Trump spoke at the NRCC Spring Dinner on Tuesday night in Washington DC. Trump said he is confident Republicans will retake the House in 2020 after losing control of the lower chamber in last year’s midterm elections. He took a hilarious swipe at Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez' and her preposterous, $93 trillion Green New Deal, which called for the elimination of farting cows, air travel and heated homes in the next 12 years. Trump also roasted cowardly Democrats who are too scared to stop the AOC Crazy Train. President Trump: “The Green New Deal, done by a young...

EXCLUSIVE -- Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., has been hit with another Federal Election Commission (FEC) complaint, this one alleging she and her campaign manager operated a “subsidy scheme” that ran afoul of campaign finance laws. The crux of the complaint, which was given exclusively to Fox News in advance of its filing Wednesday, accused Ocasio-Cortez and her campaign manager, Saikat Chakrabarti, of overseeing a "shadowy web" of political action committees (PACs) that allowed them to raise more cash than they could have legally.

Unfortunately for the Club’s board, Biden is failing to launch. The free range Moonbat coalition, aka the unsuspecting astroturf, are turning out to be more challenging to herd than the board anticipated. Their plot against installing Biden may succeed. This opens the club to reconsider Bloomberg’s prior presentation…. New York – Mike Bloomberg may still consider a run for the White House — particularly if touchy-feely Joe Biden decides to stay out of the race, according to a report. After months of speculation, the former New York City mayor said last month that he would not seek the presidency.. But...

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Tuesday said women who have accused former U.S. Vice President Joe Biden of alleged inappropriate contact ''need to be heard.''

It must be nice, having national newsrooms to run full-time damage control pro bono. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., said a stupid thing recently during a one-on-one interview with MSNBC’s Chris Hayes. That she said something ignorant is not news at all. What is newsworthy is that Newsweek felt the need to protect her where she is clearly in the wrong. The congresswoman was asked last Friday what lessons she learned from studying former President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal, for which her preposterous "Green New Deal" is named.

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., gave a vigorous defense of her signature Green New Deal initiative on Friday, rejecting Republican criticism that it's socialist. The freshman Democrat said she expected the pushback from the GOP to her plan, which calls for a complete transition to renewable energy by 2030. "But I didn't expect them to make total fools of themselves," she told MSNBC's Chris Hayes during an "All In" town hall at the Albert Einstein Medical Center in the Bronx. "I expected a little more nuance, and I expected a little more 'concern trolling,'" meaning disingenuously expressing concern.

Shortened title. Full title: WATCH: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Falsely Claims Republicans Changed Constitution to Remove FDR From Office..” Just when you thought Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez couldn’t be any dumber…she goes and does something like this. This time, the Democratic Socialist Congresswoman from New York accused Republicans of changing the Constitution in order to remove President Franklin Delano Roosevelt from office. This, of course, makes literally zero sense because FDR died while he was still in office… The 22nd Amendment of the United States Constitution, which set a two-term limit for all U.S. Presidents, was first drafted in 1947, two years after FDR...

RUSH: Ladies and gentlemen, we gotta get rid of the light-hearted stuff, and some may say that it’s all lighthearted, but Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. She just continues to literally embarrass herself. But I don’t know if it’s impossible for her to be embarrassed by herself. So she may not know that she is embarrassing herself. Listen to this quote. She was doubling down on the fact that earth is imperiled because of the cow, well, farts. Expelation of gas, methane. She’s really trying to get people to understand the severity and seriousness of this problem, and she said. Dadelut dadelut dadelut...

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez turned an overpriced croissant into a lesson on the minimum wage. “Croissants at LaGuardia are going for SEVEN DOLLARS A PIECE,” the New York Democrat tweeted Monday morning. “Yet some people think getting a whole hour of personal, dedicated human labor for $15 is too expensive??” She said her point wasn’t that the croissant cost too much. “GOP taking every tweet so earnestly, making my point for me. It’s not an argument against the price of the croissant – it’s about the value of human worth,” she continued. “But I guess the idea is foreign to them since their...

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez D-N.Y., might want to brush up on some history after asserting, incorrectly, that Republicans in Congress amended the Constitution to kick President Franklin Delano Roosevelt out of office. "They had to amend the Constitution of the United States to make sure Roosevelt did not get reelected," Ocasio-Cortez said Friday during a night hall event with MSNBC with Chris Hayes. According to AOC, Congress amended the Constitution to prevent FDR from being re-elected: "They had to amend the Constitution of the United States to make sure Roosevelt dd not get reelected." (Reminder, FDR died in office in 1945;...

Amid her zeal to save the world with the Green New Deal, Rep. ­Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has ­ignored residents in her own Bronx back yard. “I thought AOC would be our savior, but that’s not the case,” complained Roxanne Delgado, a local activist who said she has tried for months to get in touch with the congresswoman for help saving an animal shelter and to clean up parks in the district. Delgado, 40, says she has made numerous calls to Ocasio-Cortez’s offices in Washington and Queens and sent a barrage of tweets after the freshman lawmaker encouraged residents during a recent...