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Ocasio-Cortez Move Allows Her Staff To Avoid Financial Disclosure Laws

Ryan Saavedra

Democratic socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) has portrayed herself as being an outsider whose goal is to clean up politics in Washington, D.C., yet her actions suggest otherwise.

Under the new “living wage” rules she set for her staff, “Ocasio-Cortez’s decision to cap her office salaries at $80,000 will let her chief of staff and senior employees avoid public transparency laws that would require them to reveal outside income, gifts, and stock trading activity,” the Washington Examiner reported.

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