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In the awkward aftermath of the Green New Deal’s rollout, perhaps the most appropriate question for its supporters, especially the Democratic presidential field, is one often posed by tennis bad boy John McEnroe: “You cannot be serious!” But, apparently, when New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Massachusetts Sen. Edward Markey introduced their proposal in February, they were deadly serious, and breathless progressives couldn’t wait to hop aboard the climate change express. First in line, the Democratic presidential candidates in the Senate who were eager to offer up their enthusiastic support. There was just one snag. The Green New Deal, in...

President Trump elicited cheers Saturday at a Republican Jewish Coalition conference for recognizing Israel’s claim to the Golan Heights and moving the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem. The president also played to the crowd by mentioning the name of Muslim Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar, which drew loud boos from the audience in Las Vegas, Nevada. “Special thanks to Representative Omar of Minnesota,” the president said tongue-in-cheek. As the booing cascaded in the venue, Mr. Trump added, “Oh, I forgot. She doesn’t like Israel. I forgot. I’m so sorry.” Mr. Trump told the crowd that Republicans are taking a stronger stand than...

Hours before Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez called for an “agenda of reparations” at an Al Sharpton-sponsored event in New York on Friday, she was slammed as “financially illiterate” at the same conference for killing the Amazon deal with the state. Ocasio-Cortez spoke to the crowd at the National Action Network, saying her Green New Deal will consider reparations to black Americans for slavery in addition to the radical overhaul of the economy in a bid to combat climate change.But at the same conference, hours before Ocasio-Cortez’s speech, an investor ripped those who opposed the Amazon deal with the state that would have...

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) has fired back at conservative critics who accused her of adopting a faux “Southern drawl” for her speech at Rev. Al Sharpton’s National Action Network convention in New York on Friday. Ocasio-Cortez tweeted that “folks talking about my voice can step right off.” “Any kid who grew up in a distinct linguistic culture & had to learn to navigate class enviros at school/work knows what’s up,” she added. “My Spanish is the same way.”

Former U.S. Border Patrol chief Mark Morgan says he must “restrain” himself while addressing Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s claim that agents “cage children at the border and inject them with drugs” out of “hatred.” The Obama-era official sat down with Fox News’ Tucker Carlson Thursday evening when a recent Instagram Live post by the New York Democrat was addressed. “I’m not trying to cage children at the border and inject them with drugs. That’s not a mistake, that’s just hatred,” Ms. Ocasio-Cortez told supporters on social media. Mr. Morgan, who spoke to lawmakers this week on the border crisis, blasted Ms....

During a speech to Al Sharpton's annual National Action Network conference in New York City Friday, freshman Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez sounded quite different than she usually does. It appears she came up with a brand new accent for the speech. While the media is running praise filled headlines like, "I'm proud to be a bartender," about her remarks, others noticed the change and are calling her out. And before AOC fires back about the "GOP" demeaning bartending, that's now what's happening here.

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D.-N.Y.) said in a March 29 appearance on MSNBC’s “All in With Chris Hayes” that Americans “need to have a serious conversation” about climate change, including the contribution being made to it by “cow flatulence.”

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...