Ocasio-Cortez rips Trump in first House floor speech.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

'It is not normal to shut down the government when we don’t get what we want'

Democratic rising star Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (N.Y.) gave her first House floor speech on Wednesday, delivering a rebuke of President Trump over the ongoing partial government shutdown.

In the roughly three-minute speech, Ocasio-Cortez claimed the partial shutdown, now into its fourth week, is not about Trump’s demands for a border wall, but “the erosion of American democracy.”

“It is actually not about a wall, it is not about the border, and it is certainly not about the well-being of everyday Americans,” the congresswoman said. “The truth is, this shutdown is about the erosion of American democracy and the subversion of our most basic governmental norms.”

”It is not normal to hold 800,000 workers’ paychecks hostage. It is not normal to shut down the government when we don’t get what we want,” she continued. “And it is certainly not normal to starve the people we serve for a proposal that is wildly unpopular among the American people.”

https://thehill.com/homenews/house/425766-ocasio-cortez-rips-trump-in-first-house-floor-speech-it-is-not-normal-to-shut

[The Mouth]

1. Get 'em, AOC

Everyone else is fucking fighting the last war.

[RHMerriman]

3. Pretty good three minutes...

Pretty good three minutes...

Points out the reality Trump and McConnell's idiotic political gamesmanship has made the United States less secure in three weeks than any "threat" from refugees or anyone else on the US-Mexico frontier ever has...

[jcgoldie]

2. I like her more all the time

...and I don't care how many people here say she needs to pipe down and know her role because she's new... I want to keep hearing her voice.

[AlexSFCA]

4. once in a generation political talent

and at 29 y.o. sky is the limit. Very likely a future leader of the free world. Same exact speech could be sais by any other dem but she is the one making an impact.