Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez believes that Democrats have the upper hand – but has questions about who in the West Wing still has the progressives’ back.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez speaks with reporters outside the U.S. Capitol May 9, 2023. | Francis Chung/POLITICOIn the last year, a lot has changed in Washington for progressives like Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez .
In 2021 and 2022, with Democrats controlling the House, she and her allies could block any piece of legislation if they held together. Their big fights were with moderate Democrats over how many trillions of dollars to spend on President Joe Biden’s agenda.Now they are in the minority and far from the negotiating room where Joe Biden is trying to make a budget deal with Kevin McCarthy to get him to raise the debt ceiling.
In this episode of Playbook Deep Dive, Rep. Ocasio-Cortez tells host and Playbook co-author Ryan Lizza how House progressives can flex their muscles right now; and how she’s learned to use her unique influence to affect legislation, even when she’s not at the table. Finally, she has some advice – and a warning – for Joe Biden as we approach the endgame of the debt limit.
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