Ocasio-Cortez Accuses Republicans of 'Hostage-Taking'
Source: MSN
Posting to Twitter on Sunday, the self-identified socialist, who represents New York, slammed GOP politicians for refusing to budge on President Donald Trump’s demands to build a wall along the southern border between the United State and Mexico. Re-sharing a tweet from House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, a Democrat who represents Maryland, Ocasio-Cortez cortez said Republicans are targeting “innocent” people with the shutdown.
“If the GOP wants a wall so badly, they can try to propose and pass a bill like anybody else,” the congresswoman wrote. “Instead, they are seizing gov operations + innocent people’s pay until they get what they want [sic],” she added. “This is called hostage-taking. And no one can compromise or negotiate with that.”
In Hoyer’s original post, he pointed out that Trump and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, a Republican representing Kentucky, refused to sign bills passed by Democrats in the House and Republicans in the Senate that would have reopened the government because it did not include funding for a border wall. Experts have consistently pointed out that such a structure, for which Trump is demanding $5 billion, would be ineffective, not to mention exorbitantly costly.
Last month, Trump initiated a partial government shutdown when he refused to sign a bipartisan temporary budget put forward by Congress. About 800,000 federal workers have gone without pay since before Christmas as a result. However, Trump has thus far refused to compromise on his proposed wall, leading to a political stalemate. On Saturday, he shared a meme to Twitter featuring his face and the words: “The wall Is coming.”
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I do like AOC. She does not bend over backwards to try to play an "outsider" role. She is a Democrat, and she does not try to push a false equivalency of suggesting both parties are at fault to suggest that she is above the fray. In contrast, Susan Collins does her usual song of dance of trying to portray herself as non-partisan even though she will just end up voting with the racist.
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