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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Wants To Defund Military Recruiters In High Schools

Tim Pearce
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Wants To Defund Military Recruiters In High Schools
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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) has proposed stripping federal funding from military recruitment programs that operate in middle and high schools.

Ocasio-Cortez introduced the proposal days after pushing a similar amendment that would bar the military from advertising or interacting with people on “Twitch.tv or any video game, esports, or livestreaming platform,” according to The New York Times.

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