Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez tries to find the way to her ruling party.
New York Democrat is a more seasoned figure than when she broke into the national scene during the first Trump administration. Elected by surprise in 2018, Ocasio-Cortez was a progressive insurgee, a democratic socialist, a frequent criticism of his own party and a feeling of social media. She was also a leading character on Fox News, a figure that conservatives liked to hate.
Seven years later, she remains a disproportionate public figure, who has also established relations within the congress with the Democrats and even certain Republicans. At 35, she is a veteran legislative.
We sat with Ocasio-Cortez this week just after the Democrats in the House managed a unit demonstration: they all voted against a republican budgetary plan, which barely adopted. We talked about the way of his party towards political recovery.
Here are some key points of our video interview.
She thinks that the first movements of the Republicans will harm them.
“”The Republican Party is making some mistakes at the moment, “she said, predicting that a reduction of MEDICAIDE from $ 880 billion would affect the health care of many voters and that the president’s attempt to dismiss many federal workers will degrade critical services.
She always defends people without legal status.
Since their electoral defeat, some Democrats have suggested that their party needed a new approach to immigration. Many voters have seen the administration of President Biden as too lax towards people in the United States without legal status.
Ocasio-Cortez insists that it always promotes a path to citizenship. And she was disputed publicly with Tom Homan, the Tsar Frontier of President Trump, after organizing an online seminar of knowledge of your rights for people who feared being confronted with immigration agents.
Once threatened with investigation, she challenged the Ministry of Justice to try it.
Homan told Fox News that he had asked the Ministry of Justice if she raped the law by trying to “educate people how they escape the police”.
“I informed all my voters of their constitutional protections and in particular their constitutional protections against the illegal search and seizure,” Ocasio-Cortez in NPR told. She said that she intended to ask herself a question at the Ministry of Justice: “Well, there is a member of the Trump administration who threatens and seeks to open an investigation. And will you do it?”
After the interview, the Democrat sent a letter to the Attorney General Pam Bondi, which she shared with NPR. “I write to ask for a clarity on the question of whether the Ministry of Justice has given way to political pressure and armament attempts to the agency against elected officials from which they disagree.”
Like Trump, she says the government does not work for many people.
“Everything looks more and more like a scam,” she said. “Not only are the prices of the grocery store to increase, but it is as if everything had costs and an additional. And I think that anger is published in the government.”
The Democrat says that, in his opinion, the government works very well for the rich, while often failing ordinary people.
Unlike Trump, she does not want to radically reduce the government.
“I mean for the FAA? No. At NIH? No,” she said. “In fact, I don’t want someone to take a demolition ball at someone’s chemotherapy to see what’s going on.”
She said she was Open to the exam “Certain things like Medicare Advantage which, I think, are a scam”, allowing private insurers to collect additional premiums.
Reena Advani and Adam Bearne produced and published this story to broadcast. Majd al-Waheidi edited it for the web.