Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) delivered a veiled criticism of Democratic leadership on Saturday while praising the UK political system for allowing Prime Minister Liz Truss to be ousted. and ranted about how difficult it is to remove leaders in the House. US system.
The far-left MP made the comments during Saturday night’s Instagram Live session. We asked Ocasio-Cortez what he thinks about political turmoil. Truss announced her resignation last week amid record inflation and uproar over her economic policies.
Ocasio-Cortez told viewers, “I can’t speak for the world, but frankly, we need a political system that is responsive and independent enough to make quick remediation in situations like this. “I admire your parliamentary system, which seems to offer a higher level of independence and accountability than the United States.”
“Think about it. We had Trump for four years — there’s no turning back. Imagine being stuck like that,” she added. Being a rich country, now it’s a shame.”
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Ocasio-Cortez represents the far left of the Democratic Party and has long been frustrated with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and other leaders within the Democratic Party. She has repeatedly led “squads” of her fellow progressive women. Michigan Democrat Rashida Tlaib and Massachusetts Democrat Ayanna Pressley opposed the legislation Pelosi was organizing to support. The group’s first major fracture with the speaker came in 2019 with the Border Funds Bill. The team was unable to stop the bill, but Pelosi later called a one-on-one meeting with Ocasio-Cortez to publicly smooth things over.
“We are Democrats…in our caucuses, we have differences. Please respect that instead of making it a big deal,” Pelosi said at the time. “We sat down today and had a good meeting. We had a very positive conversation because the members of Congress are very nice members of Congress.”
“It feels like family. Within a family, there are differences, but it’s still a family. We held meetings to clean the air,” she added.
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Despite her professionalism with Ocasio-Cortez in the press, Pelosi has engaged in some of her own criticism of the young congressman and her team. In her book about Pelosi, Madame Speaker, she wrote that Pelosi often spoke of AOC as if she were a belligerent child.
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“You’re not a one-man show. This is the U.S. Congress,” she said when asked what advice she would have for lawmakers.