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'They need to pick up the phone': AOC, Bernie Sanders on efforts to end the Congress stalemate - CNN
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez criticized negotiations to end the government shutdown, saying that Republicans “need to pick up a phone.”
“They need to pick up a phone, Katilan. They need to pick up a phone,” Ocasio-Cortez said in a CNN Town Hall on Wednesday, dismissing Speaker Mike Johnson’s argument that Democrats must accept a clean continuing resolution passed by House Republicans last month. - Aired on 10/15/2025.
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