AOC fires back after Pelosi blasts far-left Dems’ ‘Twitter world’https://www.foxnews.com/politics/aoc-fires-back-after-pelosi-blasts-far-left-dems-twitter-worldBy Dom Calicchio | Fox News
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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez fired back Saturday night after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi criticized her and other far-left freshmen congresswomen for voting against a $4.6 billion border bill that President Trump signed into law on Monday.
Congress had approved the bill with help from moderate Democrats – and in a New York Times interview Pelosi slammed the progressive wing of her party for not also supporting the humanitarian-assistance measure.
“All these people have their public whatever and their Twitter world,†Pelosi said. “But they didn’t have any following. They’re four people and that’s how many votes they got.â€
But Ocasio-Cortez took a different view.
“That public ‘whatever’ is called public sentiment,†Ocasio-Cortez answered later in a Twitter message. “And wielding the power to shift it is how we actually achieve meaningful change in this country.â€
In a separate message, Ocasio-Cortez also defended the use of social media by herself and her fellow newcomers to Congress, over the more traditional – and often more expensive and time-consuming — methods favored by longer-serving lawmakers.
“I find it strange when members act as though social media isn’t important,†Ocasio-Cortez wrote. “They set millions of [dollars] on [fire] to run TV ads so people can see their message.
“I haven’t dialed for dollars *once* this year,†she added, “& have more time to do my actual job. Yet we’d rather campaign like it’s 2008.â€
Ocasio-Cortez also criticized the Democrats who decided to vote along with Republicans on the spending plan to address issues at the U.S.-Mexico border.