Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a Democrat, was elected to New York's 14th Congressional district seat in November 2018.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
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“The largest contributor to the debt ceiling, or to our deficit, has been the Trump tax cuts.”
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"In Texas, Republicans passed a law allowing rapists to sue their victims for getting an abortion."
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“I represent more, or just as many or more, people than Joe Manchin does.”
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“Every single swing-seat House Democrat who endorsed #MedicareForAll won re-election or is on track to win re-election. Every. Single. One.”
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Bernie Sanders has “never taken corporate lobbyist money in his *entire political career.*"
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Says Amazon is "paying full-time employees so little that they require gov food assistance."
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"70 percent of Americans believe in improved and expanded Medicare for All."
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"$21T in Pentagon accounting errors. Medicare for All costs ~$32T. That means 66% of Medicare for All could have been funded already by the Pentagon."
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In her defeat of Republican Rep. Karen Handel, Democratic challenger Lucy McBath "was outspent 5-1."
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"Just last year we gave the military a $700 billion budget increase, which they didn’t even ask for."