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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a Democrat, was elected to New York's 14th Congressional district seat in November 2018.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Latest Fact-Checks Of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez overestimates Trump tax cuts’ contribution to national debt
By Louis Jacobson
February 1, 2023

“The largest contributor to the debt ceiling, or to our deficit, has been the Trump tax cuts.”

Texas law targets abortion providers, not patients
By Nusaiba Mizan
May 9, 2022

"In Texas, Republicans passed a law allowing rapists to sue their victims for getting an abortion."

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez wrong about representing more constituents than Joe Manchin
By Louis Jacobson
December 22, 2021

“I represent more, or just as many or more, people than Joe Manchin does.”

Medicare for All supporters win in swing districts
By Jill Terreri Ramos
November 17, 2020

“Every single swing-seat House Democrat who endorsed #MedicareForAll won re-election or is on track to win re-election. Every. Single. One.”

Bernie Sanders has taken corporate lobbyist money — in small amounts
By Tom Kertscher
March 9, 2020

Bernie Sanders has “never taken corporate lobbyist money in his *entire political career.*"

Fact-checking Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s comments on Amazon, “starvation wages” and food stamps
By Bill McCarthy
June 21, 2019

Says Amazon is "paying full-time employees so little that they require gov food assistance."

Ocasio-Cortez says there is 70% support for Medicare for All
By Jon Greenberg
February 6, 2019

"70 percent of Americans believe in improved and expanded Medicare for All."

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez wrong on scale of Pentagon accounting errors
By Louis Jacobson
December 3, 2018

"$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."

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez wrong about spending in Georgia race
By Louis Jacobson
November 28, 2018

In her defeat of Republican Rep. Karen Handel, Democratic challenger Lucy McBath "was outspent 5-1."

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez overplays defense budget increase
By Manuela Tobias
August 1, 2018

"Just last year we gave the military a $700 billion budget increase, which they didn’t even ask for."

Latest Promises Of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

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