Ocasio-Cortez Rips Trump in Speech on House Floor

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Posted on Thu, Jan 17th, 2019 by Leo Vidal
Ocasio-Cortez Rips Trump in Speech on House Floor

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In her three-minute speech Ocasio-Cortez claimed that Trump’s shutdown, now nearly four weeks old, 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.”

She also told a story about one of her constituents, a Yemeni immigrant who works as an air traffic controller supervisor at New York’s JFK airport. He has two children and a mortgage, and missed his first paycheck last week due to the funding lapse, Ocasio-Cortez said.

“Federal workers’ jobs are stressful enough,” she said, before calling out Trump for “anti-immigrant sentiment,” which she says also contributes to her constituent’s stress.

The outspoken New Yorker concluded her rousing speech by pointing out that Trump has a “responsibility” to her constituents and all federal workers’ well-being, saying:

“President Trump has a responsibility to all air traffic controllers, FDA inspectors, TSA workers. And he has a responsibility to maintain the basic functioning of the United States government.”

Earlier in the day Ocasio-Cortez joined several other new Democratic representative in a march to the Senate side of the Capitol. They hand-delivered a letter to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) demanding that he end the shutdown, now the longest in U.S. history.

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1. keep hammering traitor Trump and Moscow Mitch

Every Democrat should get on the record, calling out the two manufacturers of this shutdown. This gets more of the public informed and involved. Public pressure may overcome the fear that the gutless GOP feels for Mitch and Donald.