Summary
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a 35-year-old veteran lawmaker, spoke to NPR about her party’s path forward.
She predicts Republicans will face backlash over Medicaid cuts and federal worker firings.
Despite some Democrats suggesting a new immigration approach post-election, she maintains support for a path to citizenship and recently held a know-your-rights seminar that drew threats of investigation from Trump’s border czar Tom Homan.
AOC told NPR “everything feels increasingly like a scam” for ordinary Americans while government serves the wealthy well.
Unlike Trump, she opposes drastically cutting government agencies but questions programs like Medicare Advantage.
Without doing any googling to double check, I’m almost certain that I’ve heard that was already kinda sorta tried. Ofc, it didn’t fix the problem because the exploitive system that creates the conditions for illegal immigration remained, and the government has only made it worse since then. Imo, the only true fix that doesn’t involve dumb fucking bullshit is massively loosening our immigration constraints and allowing people to live here as long as they don’t start shit.
To be clear, I’m against immigration controls period, but this is me trying to be practical.
Pathway to citizen hasn’t been tried because it hasn’t been able to get the necessary coalition to pass.