WATCH: AOC Blasts GOP Reps Who Voted Against Juneteenth, Thanks ‘White Men’ Who Said ‘Okay, Fine, We’ll Vote For This’

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) slammed lawmakers who voted against making Juneteenth a federal holiday while thanking the “white men” who said, “okay, fine, we’ll vote for this.”

In an interview with The Hill outside of the Capitol building, Ocasio-Cortez said that the fourteen House members’ negative vote was “pretty consistent with, I think, the Republican base.”