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Ocasio-Cortez Falsely Claims: Republicans Chose To Make Americans Unemployed

Ryan Saavedra
Ocasio-Cortez Falsely Claims: Republicans Chose To Make Americans Unemployed
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Socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) falsely accused Senate Republicans and the Trump administration of intentionally choosing to make millions of Americans lose their jobs amid the coronavirus pandemic, which originated in China.

“Mass unemployment was a choice,” Ocasio-Cortez falsely claimed. “We did not need to lose 20 million jobs. We didn’t. We had options and the option that we chose was to do nothing, despite the fact that we could have done something to save millions of jobs in this country.”

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