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Yahoo
30-04-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Ocasio-Cortez dodges when asked about presidential run
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) dodged a question about a potential bid for the White House on Tuesday when asked about a presidential-like video she recently released that included images from her tour with Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.). 'Listen, it's a video. And frankly, I think what people should be most concerned about is the fact that Republicans are trying to cut Medicaid right now and people's health care is in danger,' Ocasio-Cortez told Fox News reporters when asked about a presidential bid. 'That's really what my central focus is,' she added. A March poll showed her topping the chart as a Democratic Party leader who bests reflects its 'core values.' Ocasio-Cortez has been a fierce critic of the Trump administration's new policies and strongly pushed back on Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) for voting to advance the House passed continuing resolution. 'There are members of Congress who have won Trump-held districts in some of the most difficult territory in the United States who walked the plank and took innumerable risks in order to defend the American people, in order to defend Social Security, Medicaid and Medicare,' Ocasio-Cortez said in March. 'Just to see Senate Democrats even consider acquiescing Elon Musk — I think it is a huge slap in the face.' She's continued to gain traction with voters in the western portion of the country while on tour and has earned the favor of Sanders, who jokingly referenced her as his daughter. 'She looked around her, and she saw a society that was fundamentally unjust and, in many ways, ugly to the people in the community in which she lived in New York City,' Sanders said. 'She stood up and took on one of the most powerful people in the House of Representatives, and she started with almost no money against the guy who had unlimited funds, and she beat him,' he added, referring to Ocasio-Cortez's primary victory that launched her congressional career. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
The Hill
30-04-2025
- Politics
- The Hill
Ocasio-Cortez dodges when asked about presidential run
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) dodged a question about a potential bid for the White House on Tuesday when asked about a presidential-like video she recently released that included images from her tour with Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.). 'Listen, it's a video. And frankly, I think what people should be most concerned about is the fact that Republicans are trying to cut Medicaid right now and people's healthcare is in danger,' Ocasio-Cortez told reporters at Fox News when asked about a presidential bid. 'That's really what my central focus is,' she added. A March poll showed her topping the chart as a Democratic Party leader who bests reflects its ' core values.' Ocasio-Cortez has been a fierce critic of the Trump administration's new policies and strongly pushed back on Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) for voting to advance the House passed continuing resolution. 'There are members of Congress who have won Trump-held districts in some of the most difficult territory in the United States who walked the plank and took innumerable risks in order to defend the American people, in order to defend Social Security, Medicaid and Medicare,' Ocasio-Cortez said in March. 'Just to see Senate Democrats even consider acquiescing Elon Musk — I think it is a huge slap in the face.' She's continued to gain traction with voters in the western portion of the country while on tour and has earned the favor of Sanders, who jokingly referenced her as his daughter. 'She looked around her, and she saw a society that was fundamentally unjust and, in many ways, ugly to the people in the community in which she lived in New York City,' Sanders said. 'She stood up and took on one of the most powerful people in the House of Representatives, and she started with almost no money against the guy who had unlimited funds, and she beat him,' he added, referring to Ocasio-Cortez's primary victory that launched her congressional career.
Yahoo
20-03-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Chuck Schumer believed Republicans would dump ‘turd' Trump after 2020 and return to Bush's party, book claims
Democratic Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer reportedly believed that Republicans would end their unwavering support for Donald Trump after the end of his first term, according to the authors of a new book detailing former President Joe Biden's time in the White House. Schumer told the authors, Annie Karni and Luke Broadwater of the New York Times, that he hoped the "old Republican Party" would return following the 2020 election. 'Here's my hope … after this election, when the Republican Party expels the turd of Donald Trump, it will go back to being the old Republican Party," Schumer reportedly told the writers, according to The Guardian. The 2023 exchange with Schumer is included in the book 'Mad House: How Donald Trump, MAGA Mean Girls, a Former Used Car Salesman, a Florida Nepo Baby, and a Man With Rats in His Walls Broke Congress,' which is set publish on Tuesday. The authors write in the book that they believed if Schumer had any indication of what was to come, he wouldn't want to 'face it." Excerpts from the book already shared in the New York Times provided insight into the behind-the-scenes discussions that led to Biden stepping away from the presidential race in June. Those passages included scenes of Schumer trying to convince Biden to relinquish the nomination. Schumer is once again in the news, this time taking fire for leading a group of Senate Democrats who broke with the House and voted in favor of funding the government despite calls to force a shutdown from other lawmakers and Democratic voters. New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez called Schumer's decision — which was a reversal of his previous commitment to vote against the funding — a "betrayal." 'There are members of Congress who have won Trump-held districts, in some of the most difficult territories in the United States, who walked the plank and took innumerable risks in order to defend the American people … just to see some Senate Democrats even consider acquiescing to Elon Musk. I think it is a huge slap in the face, and I think that there's a wide sense of betrayal,' she told reporters after news broke that Schumer was going to vote in favor of the funding. On Tuesday, Maryland Democratic Rep. Glenn Ivey said it was time for Democrats to move past Schumer, reported USA TODAY. 'I respect Chuck Schumer. I think he had a great, long-standing career. He's done a lot of great things' Ivey said during a town hall in Maryland. 'But I'm afraid that it may be time for the Senate Democrats to pick new leadership as we move forward.' The blowback from within the party has been significant enough to convince Schumer to cancel a tour for his upcoming book, Antisemitism in America: A Warning. Schumer's team said the cancellation was due to "security concerns." The Karni and Broadwater book features other Democratic lawmakers who were skeptical of Schumer's belief that the Republicans would abandon MAGA and return to whatever they were before. 'There are plenty of examples of societies captured by a singularly unique individual demagogue, and [they] get healthy after that person disappears,' Connecticut Senator Chris Murphy reportedly told the writers. 'I'm not as optimistic as [Schumer] is. I worry there's a rot at the core of the country that will continue to be exposed politically.'
Yahoo
14-03-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Fetterman claps back at Ocasio-Cortez on government funding vote
Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.), who announced days ago that he would vote for a House-passed funding bill to avoid a government shutdown, said he doesn't care about firebrand Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's (D-N.Y.) harsh criticism of Democratic senators who will vote to advance the controversial bill. Fetterman said Ocasio-Cortez and other liberal lawmakers who are calling for the Senate to block the bill, which would fund government through Sept. 30, don't have a viable exit strategy for ending a government shutdown. And he says it's easy for House liberals to take potshots at the Senate when members of Congress would continue to receive paychecks during a shutdown while tens of thousands of federal workers would be furloughed without pay, possibly for weeks. 'I hope you can relay how little I care about her views on this,' Fetterman said when asked about Ocasio-Cortez's comments that Senate Democrats who vote to advance the bill are betraying their Democratic House colleagues. 'I'm going to stand on what I happen to believe is the right thing to do but ask her, 'What's the exit plan once we shut the government down?' What about all the millions of Americans who are going to have their lives damaged?' he asked. 'What about the ones that won't have any paycheck? She'll have her paycheck, though,' he said. 'If we're worried about Musk going to shut down the government or damage the government, we have the power to do the one thing that [President] Trump and [Elon] Musk can't do, shut it down,' he asserted. Ocasio-Cortez told reporters Thursday that many Democrats felt a 'deep sense of outrage and betrayal' over Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer's (N.Y.) announcement that he would vote to advance the House-passed funding package. Schumer acknowledged it was a 'bad bill' but warned that allowing the government to shut down would be far worse. But Ocasio-Cortez, who has not ruled out running for Schumer's seat in 2028, argued that Senate Democrats who vote for the bill will betray the House Democrats representing districts that Trump won who voted against the bill. 'There are members of Congress who have won Trump-held districts in some of the most difficult territory in the United States, who walked the plan and took innumerable risks in order to defend the American people,' she said. 'I think it is a huge slap in the face,' she added. Fetterman said he's not worried. 'Whatever her views, I'm going to sleep just fine,' he said. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
The Hill
14-03-2025
- Politics
- The Hill
Fetterman claps back at Ocasio-Cortez on government funding vote
Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.), who announced days ago that he would vote for a House-passed funding bill to avoid a government shutdown, said he doesn't care about firebrand Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's (D-N.Y.) harsh criticism of Democratic senators who will vote to advance the controversial bill. Fetterman said Ocasio-Cortez and other liberal lawmakers who are calling for the Senate to block the bill, which would fund government through Sept. 30, don't have a viable exit strategy for ending a government shutdown. And he says it's easy for House liberals to take potshots at the Senate when members of Congress would continue to receive paychecks during a shutdown while tens of thousands of federal workers would be furloughed without pay, possibly for weeks. 'I hope you can relay how little I care about her views on this,' said Fetterman when asked about Ocasio-Cortez's comments that Senate Democrats who vote to advance the bill are betraying their Democratic House colleagues. 'I'm going to stand on what I happen to believe is the right thing to do but ask her, 'What's the exit plan once we shut the government down?' What about all the millions of Americans who are going to have their lives damaged?' he asked. 'What about the ones that won't have any paycheck? She'll have her paycheck, though,' he said. 'If we're worried about Musk going to shut down the government or damage the government, we have the power to do the one thing that Trump and Musk can't do, shut it down,' he asserted. Ocasio-Cortez told reporters Thursday that many Democrats felt a 'deep sense of outrage and betrayal' over Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer's (N.Y.) announcement that he would vote to advance the House-passed funding package. Schumer acknowledged it was a 'bad bill' but warned that allowing the government to shut down would be far worse. But Ocasio-Cortez, who has not ruled out running for Schumer's seat in 2028, argued that Senate Democrats who vote for the bill will betray the House Democrats representing districts that Trump won who voted against the bill. 'There are members of Congress who have won Trump-held districts in some of the most difficult territory in the United States, who walked the plan and took innumerable risks in order to defend the American people,' she said. 'I think it is a huge slap in the face,' she added. Fetterman said he's not worried.
