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Showing Original Post only (View all)The Squad defends infrastructure "no" vote, AOC fact-checks Biden claims [View all]
Axios via Yahoo Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) is trying to tweet her way out of her vote against the Democrats' $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill even correcting President Biden's claims about its benefits.
Why it matters: AOC, the rest of The Squad and two other progressives were the only Democrats to vote against the bill. That prompted criticism from their colleagues and social media followers, since the road-and-bridge spending will so directly impact their constituents. Thirteen Republicans helped cover their lost votes.
We did not fund the replacement of every childs [lead water] pipe & we shouldnt tell people we did," Ocasio-Cortez tweeted about Biden.
The other five Democrats who voted against have released their own statements and explanations on Twitter.
The placed blame on other factors like the president, "corporate polluters," conservative Democrats, procedural issues and agreements, as well as a refusal to "choose" between supporting union workers or childcare and health care workers.
Why it matters: AOC, the rest of The Squad and two other progressives were the only Democrats to vote against the bill. That prompted criticism from their colleagues and social media followers, since the road-and-bridge spending will so directly impact their constituents. Thirteen Republicans helped cover their lost votes.
We did not fund the replacement of every childs [lead water] pipe & we shouldnt tell people we did," Ocasio-Cortez tweeted about Biden.
The other five Democrats who voted against have released their own statements and explanations on Twitter.
The placed blame on other factors like the president, "corporate polluters," conservative Democrats, procedural issues and agreements, as well as a refusal to "choose" between supporting union workers or childcare and health care workers.
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The Squad defends infrastructure "no" vote, AOC fact-checks Biden claims [View all]
In It to Win It
Nov 2021
OP
+1. Think that is true in a lot of votes. You really have to be aware of situation.
Hoyt
Nov 2021
#5
That doesn't help their case in my book. It instead demonstrates their opposition to BIF was cynical
tritsofme
Nov 2021
#12
I have an issue with her vote...but I have a bigger issue with her putting it out there that Biden
Demsrule86
Nov 2021
#15
I do not support their actions. AOC called the president a liar about the lead aspect of the bill.
Demsrule86
Nov 2021
#51
lol, no they didn't, they didn't block anything, it was symbolic protest vote, which happens all the
Celerity
Nov 2021
#11
When you have a go at all the other Senators and House reps and not just your personal targets,
Celerity
Nov 2021
#27
no, it is just that a certain group here goes after (and has since I joined in summer 2018)
Celerity
Nov 2021
#31
Manchin and Sinema have voted for all of Biden's legislation without exception and will IMHO
Demsrule86
Nov 2021
#44
that is spin and false framing in regards to actual real impacts and you know it
Celerity
Nov 2021
#57
Nobody talked much about them until they started to be the chief obstructionist disrupters
Celerity
Nov 2021
#58
But it's fine to promise Medicare for All, Green New Deal somehow solving climate change,
betsuni
Nov 2021
#17
How so? For the first time they were given the opportunity to vote on an actual infrastructure
Scrivener7
Nov 2021
#21
That is not true. Both Manchin and Sinema have voted for all legisation. Now we shall see what
Demsrule86
Nov 2021
#45
I am sick and tired of performative politics. That is not what they are there for
Walleye
Nov 2021
#22
Given one spokesperson saaid they would have voted for it had the order of the 2 votes changed
karynnj
Nov 2021
#40
Very weak argument - let's say for argument that it "only" replaced 50% of the lead pipes
karynnj
Nov 2021
#39
I am a progressive and believe much as you and AOC do. However, do not go against the
Demsrule86
Nov 2021
#49