Ex DNC official: Ocasio-Cortez 'and her friends' don't understand that negotiations 'don't happen' on Twitter and Facebook
A former Democratic National Committee official criticized the way that progressive Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and other freshman Democrats have on occasion taken an oppositional stance toward their party's leadership, suggesting they don't yet understand how political negotiations work.Fox News', saying that he did not think that Ocasio-Cortez would be able to drive the Democratic party to the left.
"I don't think Alexandria and her friends ... they haven't learned, they haven't been in Congress enough to understand that negotiations happen in Congress," Aristimuño said."They don't happen on Twitter, they don't happen on Facebook. She doesn't seem to understand that yet. Maybe later on she will understand it."
Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez , Representative Ayanna Pressley and Representative Rashida Tlaib listen as Michael Cohen, former attorney and fixer for President Donald Trump, testifies before the House Oversight Committee on Capitol Hill on February 27 in Washington, D.C.He then praised Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, a Democrat from California, saying he believed she's done a"tremendous job.
Her comments came after the four representatives vocally opposed a Republican bill that Pelosi and many Democratsat the end of last month. The legislation provided $4.6 billion in additional funding for the Department of Homeland Security to deal with the increasing number of detained migrants. However, it did not include requirements for additional oversight or protections for detained migrants. That led the block of progressive freshmen in Congress to oppose the bill.
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi departs following her weekly press conference at the U.S. Capitol on June 27 in Washington, D.C.
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