Six days after winning election to Congress, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez did what so many young progressives do while visiting the nation’s capital: She went to a rally. It was 2018, and Democratic dissatisfaction with President Donald Trump was a constant in Washington — but Ms. Ocasio-Cortez wasn’t protesting a Republican policy.
Three terms in, she’s exiting her political adolescence and coming into her own as a veteran operator.
The strategy she has come to embrace isn’t what anyone would’ve expected when she arrived in Washington. In some ways, she’s asking the obvious questions: What’s broadly popular among a vast majority of Americans, and how can I make it happen? To achieve progress on these issues, she has sought common ground in places where her peers are not thinking to look.
She has attributed the success of these efforts at least in part to her role as the second most powerful Democrat on the House Oversight Committee, which she said has “opened many windows” for collaboration. “They’re very few and far between,”It was at an Oversight Committee hearing that she and other members, including Mark Meadows of North Carolina and Jim Jordan of Ohio,that found that the company had wildly overcharged the Pentagon for its services.
On Gaza, too, she has been willing to buck other members of her party to pursue an agenda a majority of voters support. She was one of the first Democrats to call for a cease-fire; within weeks, nearly 70 percent of Americans
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