Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) defended Rep. Jamaal Bowman (D-NY) during an interview over the weekend after Bowman pulled a fire alarm on Saturday in a congressional office before the House vote on a stopgap bill to keep the government open.
AOC gave the defense of Bowman — who is now under investigation by law enforcement and Congress — during an interview with Jake Tapper on CNN&#8217;s &#8220;State of the Union&#8221; Sunday morning.
&#8220;There was an interesting moment over the weekend when your New York colleague Congressman Jamaal Bowman &#8212; he&#8217;s under investigation for this now after Capitol Police say he pulled a fire alarm in one of the House&#8217;s office buildings,&#8221; Tapper said. &#8220;Democrats were trying to delay a vote, a final vote on the bill. There he is pulling the fire alarm. He says it was an accident, and he thought pulling the alarm would open a door, based on the fact that the doors to his right there were locked and there was a sign that he said he was &#8212; I think someone said it was confusing.&#8221;
&#8220;I will be honest. That doesn&#8217;t really make sense to me, his explanation,&#8221; Tapper said. &#8220;Have you talked to him? What&#8217;s going on there?&#8221;
&#8220;I mean, listen, I think if you actually do see some of the photos of the signs, I think there&#8217;s something to be said about, the government&#8217;s about to shut down. There&#8217;s a vote clock that&#8217;s going down. The exits that are normally open in that building were suddenly closed,&#8221; Ocasio-Cortez claimed.
&#8220;So, you pull the fire alarm?&#8221; Tapper responded.
&#8220;So, I&#8217;m not &#8212; I&#8217;m &#8212; what I am here to say is that House administration, U.S. Capitol Police, and Jamaal Bowman are in active, and he&#8217;s fully participating in saying there was a misunderstanding,&#8221; she responded. &#8220;But what I do think is important to raise is the fact that Republicans, representatives like Nicole Malliotakis and others, immediately moved to file motions to censure, motions to expel before there has even been conversations that are finished to even see if there was a misunderstanding here.&#8221;
Ocasio-Cortez went on to claim that Rep. George Santos (R-NY) was “actually found guilty after a thorough investigation of 13 federal charges.” Santos has been indicted but has not been found guilty, as there has been no trial at this point.
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez defends fellow Democrat Rep. Jamaal Bowman pulling the fire alarm to delay a House vote, saying people shouldn&#39;t judge &quot;before there has even been conversations that are finished to even see if there was a misunderstanding here&quot; <a href="https://t.co/FOYlPV6L64">pic.twitter.com/FOYlPV6L64</a>
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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) <a href="https://themessenger.com/politics/ocasio-cortez-would-absolutely-cast-a-vote-to-oust-mccarthy" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> Sunday that she would “absolutely” cast a vote to oust Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) should a motion be brought to the House floor.
Ocasio-Cortez made the comments during an appearance on CNN’s “State of the Union” with host Jake Tapper shortly after Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) told the host that he would file a motion to vacate against McCarthy sometime this week. The Democratic congresswoman blasted McCarthy for his leadership and said he waited too long to avert a shutdown. 
“Do you think that there will be any Democrats that might vote to save McCarthy?” Tapper asked. 
“I mean, I certainly don’t think that we would expect to see that unless there’s a real conversation between the Republican and Democratic caucuses and Republican and Democratic leadership about what that would mean, but I don’t think we give up votes for free,” Ocasio-Cortez said.
“But would you vote to vacate? Would you vote to get rid of McCarthy as speaker?” Tapper pressed. 
“Would I cast that vote? Absolutely. Absolutely. I think Kevin McCarthy is a very weak speaker, he clearly has lost control of his caucus,” the New York Democrat said. 
Ocasio-Cortez went on to criticize McCarthy for waiting until the “final hour” to pass the stop-gap spending measure, which 126 Republicans and 209 Democrats voted <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/interactive/2023/house-vote-government-shutdown/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">in favor</a> of. She said the country would be “right back in this place” in November when the measure’s 45-day extension expires. Had the House and Senate not sent the bill to President Joe Biden’s desk, a government shutdown would have <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2023/09/30/government-shutdown-live-updates-congress-faces-funding-deadline.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ensued</a> at 12:01 a.m. Sunday. 
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The bill <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/house-passes-stopgap-spending-measure-with-no-additional-support-for-ukraine" target="_blank" rel="noopener">includes</a> $16 billion for U.S. disaster relief aid but no additional funding to Ukraine. However, reports suggest McCarthy may have made a <a href="https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/09/developing-mccarthy-lied-again-cut-side-deal-ukraine/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">side deal</a> with Democratic House leadership, who <a href="https://twitter.com/JakeSherman/status/1708269890627363163?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1708270763759825399%7Ctwgr%5Ed40c13a02988aba9fca593dd50e1d83adf5579ce%7Ctwcon%5Es3_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.thegatewaypundit.com%2F2023%2F09%2Fdeveloping-mccarthy-lied-again-cut-side-deal-ukraine%2F">said</a> they &#8220;expect&#8221; McCarthy to “advance a bill to the House floor for an up-or-down vote that supports Ukraine” when the House returns. 
Gaetz claimed the speaker did not inform Republicans of this until after the continuing resolution passed, <a href="https://twitter.com/mattgaetz/status/1708270763759825399?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1708270763759825399%7Ctwgr%5Ed40c13a02988aba9fca593dd50e1d83adf5579ce%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.thegatewaypundit.com%2F2023%2F09%2Fdeveloping-mccarthy-lied-again-cut-side-deal-ukraine%2F" target="_blank" rel="noopener">calling it</a> “more deceit” from McCarthy. On Sunday, Gaetz went further, saying he would file a motion to vacate the chair to oust the California Republican. 
“I do intend to file a motion to vacate against Speaker McCarthy this week,” Gaetz <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/10/01/politics/house-republicans-infighting-matt-gaetz-kevin-mccarthy-shutdown/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> Tapper. “I think we need to rip off the Band-Aid. I think we need to move on with new leadership that will be trustworthy.”
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Gaetz accused McCarthy of repeatedly breaking the promises he made while seeking the role and said the “last straw” was the “agreement that he made with Democrats to really blow past a lot of the spending guardrails we set up.”
On Sunday morning, McCarthy said he wasn&#8217;t fazed by Gaetz&#8217;s threat, <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/matt-gaetz-kevin-mccarthy-house-speaker-motion-to-vacate/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">saying</a>, &#8220;Let&#8217;s get over with it. Let&#8217;s start governing. If he&#8217;s upset because he tried to push us into a shutdown and I made sure government didn&#8217;t shut down, then let&#8217;s have that talk.&#8221; McCarthy also said he would &#8220;survive&#8221; the vote and claimed Gaetz was &#8220;more interested in securing TV interviews&#8221; than other pressing issues.
Gaetz told Tapper that the “only way” McCarthy retains his position is if Democrats “bail him out,” which he said is likely. 
“I actually think that when you believe in nothing as Kevin McCarthy does, everything’s negotiable and I think he’ll cut a deal with the Democrats,” Gaetz <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2023/10/01/gaetz-i-wont-deal-with-dems-they-will-own-mccarthy-if-they-save-his-speakership/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>, explaining that he would “absolutely not” cut a deal with Democrats to oust McCarthy, saying instead they should vote against McCarthy &#8220;for free.&#8221;

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Far-left Rep. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/aoc" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez</a> (D-NY) scrambled on Wednesday to defend herself after X CEO Elon Musk said the congresswoman is &#8220;just not that smart.&#8221;
The commentary was sparked after AOC criticized House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) over a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/amid-shutdown-showdown-mccarthy-remains-popular-with-conservative-base" target="_blank" rel="noopener">looming</a> government shutdown.
&#8220;Boy math is needing 15 attempts to count the votes correctly to become Speaker and then shutting down the government 9 months later,&#8221; Ocasio-Cortez posted to X, formerly known as Twitter.
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Boy math is needing 15 attempts to count the votes correctly to become Speaker and then shutting down the government 9 months later
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Political commentator Ashley St. Clair chimed in to criticize AOC, writing, &#8220;Girl math is saying immigrants coming legally through Ellis Island is the same as 3 million undocumented migrants pouring through our border and costing NYC $1,000,000,000 to house migrants for free in hotels.&#8221;
Musk responded to St. Clair&#8217;s post about AOC, posting, &#8220;She’s just not that smart.&#8221;
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She’s just not that smart
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AOC quickly boasted of her accomplishments in response. &#8220;I wasn’t born rich and became the youngest woman in American history to be elected to Congress,&#8221; she wrote. &#8220;Then I investigated Cohen, authored the largest FEMA funeral assistance program in history and led creation of a US Climate Corps to create tens of thousands of new jobs. Stay mad.&#8221;
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I wasn’t born rich and became the youngest woman in American history to be elected to Congress.
Then I investigated Cohen, authored the largest FEMA funeral assistance program in history and led creation of a US Climate Corps to create tens of thousands of new jobs.
Stay mad 💁🏽‍♀️ <a href="https://t.co/EDsPGs8Bx6">https://t.co/EDsPGs8Bx6</a>
&mdash; Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) <a href="https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1707029129025999324?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 27, 2023</a></blockquote>
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St. Clair snarked, &#8220;You grew up in the wealthy suburbs of Westchester County. Drop the Bronx shtick at the very least girly pop.&#8221;
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You grew up in the wealthy suburbs of Westchester County. Drop the Bronx shtick at the very least girly pop.
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The New York City representative has had numerous public battles with critics. Notably, back in 2022, when Ocasio-Cortez fled New York City for COVID lockdown-free Florida, she claimed her GOP critics actually just want to date her.
&#8220;If Republicans are mad they can&#8217;t date me they can just say that instead of projecting their sexual frustrations onto my boyfriend&#8217;s feet. Ya creepy weirdos,&#8221; she wrote, referring to a photo of herself with her now-fiancé.
&#8220;It&#8217;s starting to get old ignoring the very obvious, strange, and deranged sexual frustrations that underpin the Republican fixation on me, women, &amp; LGBT+ people in general,&#8221; AOC claimed.
&#8220;These people clearly need therapy, won&#8217;t do it, and use politics as their outlet instead. It&#8217;s really weird,&#8221; she added.
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If Republicans are mad they can’t date me they can just say that instead of projecting their sexual frustrations onto my boyfriend’s feet.
Ya creepy weirdos <a href="https://t.co/Z7bZCgXpWJ">https://t.co/Z7bZCgXpWJ</a>
&mdash; Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) <a href="https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1477000469318885385?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 31, 2021</a></blockquote>
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Similarly, back in 2018, AOC claimed Daily Wire Editor Emeritus Ben Shapiro was &#8220;catcalling&#8221; her after he challenged her to a public debate for charity.
Commenting on a screenshot, AOC wrote, &#8220;Just like catcalling, I don’t owe a response to unsolicited requests from men with bad intentions. And also like catcalling, for some reason they feel entitled to one.&#8221;
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Just like catcalling, I don’t owe a response to unsolicited requests from men with bad intentions.
And also like catcalling, for some reason they feel entitled to one. <a href="https://t.co/rsD17Oq9qe">pic.twitter.com/rsD17Oq9qe</a>
&mdash; Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) <a href="https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1027729430137827328?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 10, 2018</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Discussion and debate are not &#8216;bad intentions,'&#8221; Shapiro shot back. &#8220;Slandering someone as a sexist catcaller without reason or evidence does demonstrate cowardice and bad intent, however.&#8221;
&#8220;But sure, go with &#8216;the Orthodox Jew who has never catcalled a woman in his life is ACKSHUALLY a sexist catcaller for asking for a discussion or debate,'&#8221; he added. &#8220;I’m sure your media sycophants will eat it up.&#8221;
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But sure, go with “the Orthodox Jew who has never catcalled a woman in his life is ACKSHUALLY a sexist catcaller for asking for a discussion or debate.” I’m sure your media sycophants will eat it up.
&mdash; Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) <a href="https://twitter.com/benshapiro/status/1027735349504532480?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 10, 2018</a></blockquote>
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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) blamed Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) for a sudden increase of illegal immigrants entering the U.S., claiming that his sanctions against the socialist dictatorship in Venezuela caused the surge.
AOC made the remarks during a Sunday interview with CBS News&#8217;s Margaret Brennan on &#8220;Face The Nation&#8221; when asked to further elaborate on her recent remarks that she believes &#8220;immigration is arguably [the Biden] Administration&#8217;s weakest issue.&#8221;
The congresswoman responded by claiming former President Donald Trump &#8220;dramatically inflamed&#8221; the issue. She then pivoted to saying 500,000 Venezuelans who recently flooded into the U.S. needed to be given a pathway to citizenship because that would &#8220;reduce the strain on our public systems,&#8221; and went on to blame Rubio.
&#8220;I think we also need to examine the root of this problem, because if we are constantly engaging in foreign policy that drives people to our southern border in this specific instance, U.S. sanctions that were originally authored by Marco Rubio began and precipitated certainly took a large part in the driving of populations to our southern border shortly after those sanctions, those broad-based sanctions &#8230; we started seeing dramatic increases in these populations that were coming to our southern border,&#8221; she said. &#8220;And so we have to address the root of these population movements and the migration crisis. And we have to also have to address the domestic U.S. policy issues when it comes to immigration reform.&#8221;
Brennan pushed back, noting that dictator Nicolas Maduro, who has been president of Venezuela since 2013, was &#8220;responsible for large parts of that.&#8221;
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Ocasio-Cortez said that the U.S. should &#8220;reexamine&#8221; the sanctions it has placed on the oppressive regime and, when asked, would not answer whether President Joe Biden should go to the border or whether she would go to the border.
AOC also claimed that allowing illegal immigrants to work in the United States was &#8220;not what is driving millions of people&#8221; to come to America.
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Rep. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/alexandria-ocasio-cortez">Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez</a> (D-NY) called on Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ) to resign after the 69-year-old lawmaker was indicted on federal corruption charges last week.
The indictment, unsealed on Friday, claims that Menendez and his wife had a corrupt relationship with New Jersey businessmen Wael Hana, Jose Uribe, and Fred Daibes, who allegedly gave the senator bribes worth hundreds of thousands of dollars. According to the DOJ, the bribes were intended to protect the businessmen and benefit Egypt.
Menendez faces up to 45 years in prison if convicted of the charges, which include conspiracy to commit bribery, conspiracy to commit honest services fraud, and conspiracy to commit extortion under color of official right.
AOC was asked to respond to the scandal during an appearance on CBS News&#8217;s &#8220;Face The Nation&#8221; with Margaret Brennan after Brennan noted that the congresswoman had called on Republicans to resign amid their own scandals.
&#8220;Senator Bob Menendez of New Jersey, as you know, has just been indicted on bribery charges,&#8221; Brennan said. &#8220;Should he resign? And what do you think of his statement that it has to do with him being a Latino?&#8221;
&#8220;Well, you know, I think it&#8217;s- the situation is quite unfortunate, but I do believe that it is in the best interest for Senator Menendez to resign in this moment,&#8221; Ocasio-Cortez said. &#8220;As you mentioned, consistency matters. It shouldn&#8217;t matter whether it&#8217;s a Republican or a Democrat. The details in this indictment are extremely serious. They involve the nature of, of not just his but all of our seats in Congress.&#8221;
Ocasio-Cortez dismissed Menendez&#8217;s <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/menendez-addresses-growing-calls-to-resign-after-corruption-charges">claims</a> that there was a &#8220;campaign&#8221; trying to bring him down and that it was racially motivated.
&#8220;And while, you know, as a Latina, there are absolutely ways in which there is systemic bias. But I think what is here in this indictment is quite clear,&#8221; she continued. &#8220;And I believe it&#8217;s in the best interest to maintain the integrity of the seat. I want to emphasize that all people are- they must be extended the presumption of innocence until proven guilty. That is the legal reality in our country. But when it comes to the political and the standard of dignity that we want to maintain for the public in the United States Congress, I do believe it is in the best interests.&#8221;
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BREAKING: <a href="https://twitter.com/AOC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@AOC</a> calls on Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ) to resign following his indictment on federal bribery charges, &quot;to maintain the integrity of the seat.”
“It shouldn&#39;t matter whether it&#39;s a Republican or a Democrat. The details in this indictment are extremely serious.” <a href="https://t.co/QAe2H0qmJi">pic.twitter.com/QAe2H0qmJi</a>
&mdash; Face The Nation (@FaceTheNation) <a href="https://twitter.com/FaceTheNation/status/1705956588257730967?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 24, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) and other New York Democrats were shouted down during a press conference on Friday while speaking to constituents about the flood of illegal aliens that have hit the streets of New York City.
&#8220;Close the border!&#8221; protesters shouted at the officials. &#8220;Close the border! Close the border!&#8221;
Other protesters became so aggressive in their confrontation with lawmakers that security personnel had to move them back.
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<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/HAPPENINGNOW?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#HAPPENINGNOW</a> &quot;Send Them Back!&quot; and &quot;Close the Border!&quot; &#8211; Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez <a href="https://twitter.com/AOC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@AOC</a> press conference was disrupted by Anti-migrant protest outside ROOSEVELT HOTEL used as arrival center and housing for migrants arriving to NYC.
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&quot;Mayor Adams said that the city would be destroyed&quot; &#8211; Question asked during the gaggle with AOC outside Roosevelt Hotel hosting migrants, &quot;I have to run, thank you&quot; AOC responded.
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&#8220;Ultimately, I think there are three points of consensus here that are very important in getting a solution to this issue,&#8221; AOC said. &#8220;The first is that there is consensus here across geography and states on increasing federal resources to cities and municipalities dealing with this issue. The second is to allow for work authorizations so that the folks in here can get to work and start supporting themselves as soon as possible.&#8221;
&#8220;They&#8217;re prevented from getting jobs, they&#8217;re prevented from employment, and that is part of the strain on our public systems,&#8221; she added. &#8220;The faster that folks can access the work that they’re asking for, legally, the better we can solve.&#8221;
The New York Post spoke with some of the protesters after the event, including 59-year-old David Rem, who slammed the illegal aliens for cutting in line.
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&#8220;My wife’s children, Diego and Lina, have been waiting seven long years in Medellin, Colombia, to come to this country legally,&#8221; he said. &#8220;They have paid all the immigration fees and have been fingerprinted by the FBI. They have done everything right — they have been waiting and they haven’t broken federal law by crossing the border illegally, so why not them.&#8221;
&#8220;You know what’s going to happen, they’re going to say to my kids in a year from now ‘Diego and Lina, sorry but there’s no room for you, the country’s full’,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;It’s a slap in the face to legal migration.&#8221;
He said that &#8220;99% of these illegal aliens asylum petitions are not true asylum petitions&#8221; and he asked President Joe Biden to close the border.
&#8220;It’s two years overdue,&#8221; he said. &#8220;If you keep rewarding people for breaking federal law by crossing the border and coming to New York illegally, it’s never going to stop.&#8221;

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Rep. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/she-aint-worth-it-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-intervenes-in-verbal-confrontation-between-marjorie-taylor-greene-and-jamaal-bowman" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez&#8217;s</a> (D-NY) office says that she has never been married — but according to a new report from The Washington Free Beacon, she has identified her fiancé as her &#8220;spouse&#8221; on several forms filed with the House Ethics Committee.
The <a href="https://freebeacon.com/democrats/aoc-cites-longtime-partner-as-spouse-but-keeps-his-finances-under-wraps-a-potential-breach-of-ethics-rules/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">report</a>, written by investigative journalist Andrew Kerr, detailed <a href="https://disclosures-clerk.house.gov/gtimages/MT/2023/500025932.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">forms</a> pertaining to the congresswoman&#8217;s official travel in 2022 and 2023 that were submitted to the committee — in which Riley Roberts, Ocasio-Cortez&#8217;s fiancé, was listed as her &#8220;spouse.&#8221; Also submitted were the New York Rep&#8217;s financial disclosure statements — on which Roberts was also referred to as her &#8220;spouse,&#8221; but his finances were not disclosed.
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If AOC is indeed married, her spouse&#39;s finances are now subject to public disclosure.
But she did not disclose any of Roberts’s reportable stock holdings, assets, or income on her latest financial disclosure, though she did make two references to her &quot;spouse&quot; in the filing. <a href="https://t.co/USREG8xvdI">pic.twitter.com/USREG8xvdI</a>
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The issue, Kerr explained, is fairly simple: if the pair are not married, then Roberts cannot be named her &#8220;spouse&#8221; on official travel forms. And if they are, Roberts must disclose his finances according to House rules.
The congresswoman&#8217;s office told the Free Beacon that Ocasio-Cortez and Roberts have never been legally married. However, spokeswoman Lauren Hitt appeared to brush the criticism aside – claiming that &#8220;House Ethics has commonly recognized the term spouse to extend to long-term partners.&#8221;
According to the report, that is not true — the House Ethics Committee <a href="https://ethics.house.gov/sites/ethics.house.gov/files/documents/Dec%202022%20House%20Ethics%20Manual%20website%20version.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">defines marriage</a> specifically as &#8220;someone to whom you are legally married.&#8221;
According the the Free Beacon&#8217;s report, Hitt could have been referring to the Office of Congressional Ethics, which considers a long-term romantic partner to be &#8220;synonymous with a spouse&#8221; — but her actions would be governed by the committee.
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But the question was still raised in the report: if Roberts was Ocasio-Cortez&#8217;s &#8220;spouse&#8221; for the purpose of overseas travel, why would he not also be her &#8220;spouse&#8221; for the purposes of financial disclosures?
With regard to their finances, as long as Ocasio-Cortez and Roberts remain unmarried, the boyfriend loophole exempts Roberts from financial disclosure requirements.
&#8220;If they were married then she would be required to disclose his finances on her 2022 financial disclosure,&#8221; Kendra Arnold, executive director of the Foundation for Accountability and Civic Trust, told the Free Beacon. &#8220;There is no exception to this rule.&#8221;

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Residents in the New York area represented by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez blasted her for sharing a video last month that said propaganda was being fed to the American public about inflation.
The video, from left-wing New Zealand group Aotearoa Liberation League, blamed “greedy shareholders” for creating “propaganda” about inflation.
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“The price of everything keeps going up; meanwhile, the corporations selling those things are making massive profits,” the video stated. “The goal of the capitalist is to disconnect these two facts from one another. So they use this concept of inflation.”
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“The propaganda around inflation and cost of living is so powerful that we forget the very basic fact that corporations set the prices for their products,” the video continued. “If a corporation raises its prices and then makes record profits, that&#8217;s not some invisible monster. It&#8217;s just a bunch of greedy shareholders.”
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Ocasio-Cortez’s constituents in the 14th district expressed their anger to <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/09/10/aocs-constituents-slam-her-claim-inflation-is-propaganda-is-she-crazy/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The New York Post</a> that Ocasio-Cortez had blithely dismissed talk of inflation as “propaganda.”
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A 41-year-old certified nursing assistant and single mother of three told the Post, “Is AOC crazy? Has she been to a grocery store recently? $1,000 ain’t nothing no more. $100 ain’t nothing no more. Maybe she should spend some time in the projects and really help people.”
“I’m working two jobs just to survive,” she continued. “I kill myself just to feed my family. It’s much worse now than it was before the pandemic.”
A Hispanic retired schoolteacher from the Bronx snapped that AOC “does not represent true Hispanic beliefs or values,. Puerto Ricans have traditional family values which she does not represent. And for her to act as if inflation being something other than the government’s fault? Well since I don’t have someone to pay for my $30,000 dress for a gala like she did, it’s much easier for me to see the truth.”
“AOC should not be in Congress,” she concluded. “She’s not helping us, she’s hurting us with her rhetoric and her policies.”
A 55-year-old man said, “I had to cash in my 401K. The last few years have been very rough. You go in a store with $100 and it buys almost nothing. I don’t understand why (AOC) isn’t taking this more seriously.”

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White House Press Secretary <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/karine-jean-pierre" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Karine Jean-Pierre</a> responded to criticisms from Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) this week that President Joe Biden is not securing the southern border by claiming that Biden has &#8220;done more&#8221; than anyone else on the issue.
“Immigration is arguably this administration’s weakest issue,” AOC told The New York Times in an interview. “This is one area where our policy is dictated by politics, arguably more so than almost any other.”
AOC claimed that Biden was not doing what she recommended he do because there was &#8220;a fear around just being seen as approving or providing permission structures, or really just the Republican narratives that have surrounded immigration.&#8221;
&#8220;We also need to examine the root causes of this migration and address that this problem doesn’t start at our border, but it starts with our foreign policy,&#8221; she said.
Jean-Pierre responded to AOC&#8217;s remarks, saying: &#8220;The president has done more to secure the border and to deal with this issue of immigration than anybody else. He really has.&#8221;
&#8220;Look, the president has done what he can from here, from the federal government, from the White House to put forth and manage our border in a safe and humane way, to respect the dignity of every human, as he says all the time, and making sure that our communities are safe,&#8221; she continued.
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KJP: &quot;The President has done more to secure the border to deal with this issue of immigration than anybody else. He really has. June saw the single largest month-to-month drop in unlawful border crossings b/c of the policies [he] out in place&#8230;We secured record funding&quot; <a href="https://t.co/69JgZqSR92">pic.twitter.com/69JgZqSR92</a>
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Rep. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/alexandria-ocasio-cortez">Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez</a> (D-NY) suggested Congress should consider using subpoena power to force <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/supreme-court">Supreme Court</a> Justice <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/john-roberts">John Roberts</a> to testify before lawmakers about ethics issues.
The Democrat-controlled Senate Judiciary Committee &#8220;is beginning the process of investigating the entanglements and conflicts of interest,&#8221; the congresswoman said during an interview with CNN that aired Sunday morning.
&#8220;I believe that if Chief John Roberts will not come before <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/congress">Congress</a> for an investigation voluntarily, I believe that we should be considering subpoenas,&#8221; she added later.
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AOC: If Chief Justice Roberts will not come before Congress for an investigation voluntarily, I believe that we should be considering subpoenas… <a href="https://t.co/a7XwkQ1oN9">pic.twitter.com/a7XwkQ1oN9</a>
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The Senate Judiciary Committee asked Roberts to testify about Supreme Court ethics and potential reforms for a hearing in early May, but the chief justice <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/durbin-invites-chief-justice-roberts-testify-supreme-court/story?id=98728400" target="_blank" rel="noopener">declined the invitation</a>.
At the time, Sen. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/dianne-feinstein">Dianne Feinstein</a> (D-CA) was on medical leave while recovering from shingles, leaving Democrats without a majority on the panel that could overcome GOP opposition if there was a vote on a subpoena. However, Feinstein has <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/feinstein-returns-to-senate-in-wheelchair-needs-lighter-schedule">since returned to Capitol Hill</a>.
Ocasio-Cortez, who cited concerns centered on conservative Justices <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/the-view-keeps-pushing-claim-that-clarence-thomas-wife-egged-on-january-6th-riot">Clarence Thomas</a> and <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/law/2023/jun/21/samuel-alito-undisclosed-gifts-billionaire-paul-singer-supreme-court">Samuel Alito</a>, said Congress &#8220;must pass much more binding and stringent ethics guidelines.&#8221;
&#8220;There also must be impeachment on the table,&#8221; she added. &#8220;We have a broad level of tools to deal with misconduct, overreach, and abuse of power. And the Supreme Court has not been receiving the adequate oversight necessary in order to preserve their own legitimacy. And, in the process, they themselves have been destroying the legitimacy of the court, which is profoundly dangerous for our entire democracy.&#8221;
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Ocasio-Cortez also discussed reining in the power held by the nine justices — including the prospect of expanding the Supreme Court — following a series of conservative victories over the past year in rulings focused on <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/pro-life-professor-breaks-down-why-supreme-court-didnt-go-far-enough-when-it-overturned-roe" target="_blank" rel="noopener">abortion access</a>, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/supreme-court-sides-with-christian-graphic-designer-who-refused-to-work-on-same-sex-weddings" target="_blank" rel="noopener">religious freedom</a>, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/supreme-court-issues-landmark-ruling-on-affirmative-action-at-universities" target="_blank" rel="noopener">affirmative action</a>, and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/supreme-court-delivers-defeat-to-biden-admin-on-student-loan-forgiveness" target="_blank" rel="noopener">President Joe Biden&#8217;s student debt plan</a>.
&#8220;The courts, if they were to proceed without any check on their power, without any balance on their power, then we will start to see an undemocratic and, frankly, dangerous authoritarian expansion of power in the Supreme Court,&#8221; Ocasio-Cortez said, adding, &#8220;which is what we are seeing now, from the overturning of abortion rights, to the ruling that discrimination and, frankly, stripping the full personhood and dignity of LGBTQ people in the United States.&#8221;
&#8220;These are the types of rulings that signal a dangerous creep towards authoritarianism and centralization of power in the court,&#8221; she added.

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The <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/covid-19">COVID-19</a> pandemic is over for everyone — everyone but Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
The pandemic lives on for the New York democratic socialist — at least according to an automated phone message that reportedly plays when people call her congressional office in Washington, D.C.
“Thank you for calling the office of Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Federal, state and local officials have advised that social distancing is critical to preventing the spread of COVID-19,” the recorded greeting from a male staffer says, <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/05/28/aocs-office-still-touts-social-distancing/">according</a> to the New York Post.
“As such, staff in the congresswoman’s DC and district offices will shortly begin telecommuting. Meetings and other business will be conducted by phone or video. Thank you for your understanding.”
Huh? Who&#8217;s still doing any of that? Way back in August 2022, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) got rid of its social distance requirement, which called for people to stay six feet from others. And last September, President Joe Biden declared, “The pandemic is over.”
In a bit of hilarity, Biden&#8217;s staff and Dr. Anthony Fauci, who headed up the White House COVID response team, walked back the president&#8217;s declaration. But Biden did sign a bill passed by Congress that officially ended the COVID-19 emergency on May 11.
One fellow lawmaker mocked AOC for being so out of tune. &#8220;Maybe her office just needs to update its voicemail but the pandemic is over and all federal employees need to return to the office. They don’t get paid to sit home,” Rep. Nicole Malliotakis (R-NY) told the Post. “My office never closed to begin with.&#8221;
You still see the odd straggler wearing a mask (I saw one just yesterday alone in a car), but for the wide majority of Americans, we were done with the pandemic last year. SARS CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, keeps mutating and moving around, but we&#8217;ve all moved on.
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When the federal government launched a vaccine booster campaign last September, advising people over 50 and those with certain medical conditions to take the jab, Americans went &#8220;nah.&#8221;
“Around two-thirds of adults in the United States do not plan to get updated COVID-19 booster shots soon, according to a survey conducted by the Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF), a health policy nonprofit organization,” Reuters <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/us/two-thirds-us-adults-dont-plan-getting-covid-boosters-soon-poll-2022-09-30/">reported</a> at the time.
But Democrats believed the establishment media in America, which spent two years terrifying people with breathless reports that we were all about to die. Once they committed, they just didn&#8217;t want to let the pandemic go.
That was made clear in a Gallup <a href="https://news.gallup.com/poll/404696/pandemic-outlook-recovers-leaders-messaging-falters.aspx">poll</a> last November. “Americans in all party groups have become more likely to say the pandemic is over since July, including increases of 12 points among Republicans, 14 points among Democrats and 10 points among independents,” Gallup found.
“However, Republicans are the only party with a majority saying the pandemic is over. Republicans are more than three times as likely as Democrats to say this, at 73% vs. 21%, while 48% of independents agree. Despite the fact that Biden has said he believes the pandemic is over, a majority of his party’s faithful, 79%, do not concur.”
And some, like AOC, apparently still don&#8217;t concur.
The views expressed in this piece are the author’s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.
Joseph Curl has covered politics for 35 years, including 12 years as White House correspondent for a national newspaper. He was also the a.m. editor of the Drudge Report for four years. Send tips to josephcurl@dailywire.com and follow him on Twitter @josephcurl.

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Far left Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) expressed her disgust in a <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2023/05/30/fake-aoc-twitter-account-musk-00099319" target="_blank" rel="noopener">tweet</a> on Tuesday over a viral Twitter account that parodies the congresswoman.
The account, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Press Release (parody), <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/05/30/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-warns-twitter-of-parody-account-elevated-by-elon-musk/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">gained steam</a> after Twitter boss Elon Musk interacted with a tweet it posted which jokingly remarked, “This might be the wine talking, but I’ve got a crush on <a href="https://twitter.com/elonmusk">@elonmusk</a>,” to which the tech billionaire responded with a fire emoji.
The New York Democrat <a href="https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1663599965698916371" target="_blank" rel="noopener">informed</a> her Twitter followers, “FYI there’s a fake account on here impersonating me and going viral. The Twitter CEO has engaged it, boosting visibility. It is releasing false policy statements and gaining spread. I am assessing with my team how to move forward. In the meantime, be careful of what you see.&#8221;
The account was created in 2018 under the same parody theme, enjoying moderate success until the account went offline in May 2019. It began posting again on May 22 this year, with hundreds of tweets in the past week.
Some of the <a href="https://twitter.com/AOCpress" target="_blank" rel="noopener">highlights</a> of parody account include:
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<li>“I’m having my staff report every single tweet that makes fun of me to the DOJ.”</li>
<li>“If @elonmusk wants to have a chance with me, he’ll immediately ban the parody account of me. This is like literally not funny.”</li>
<li>“To make windmills more effective &#8211; when the wind doesn’t blow, we should have helicopters hover over each of them and keep them turning year round.”</li>
<li>“Every time my boyfriend farts &#8211; I make him plant a tree to offset his carbon emissions.”</li>
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The account’s blue checkmark, offered to Twitter Blue subscribers for $8 a month, was temporarily removed on Tuesday for an unknown reason, <a href="https://twitter.com/AOCpress/status/1663644878092263426" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according to</a> the account owner. It was <a href="https://twitter.com/AOCpress/status/1663654446541201410" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reinstated</a> several hours later. Many have speculated that the parody account might have violated the Twitter Blue terms of service as being “misleading and deceptive,” but many have pointed out that AOC’s Twitter account has millions more followers and a gray check mark given to all “government or multilateral” representatives.

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