Ocasio-Cortez Foresees Democratic Row Over Biden’s Economic Plan
- Party ‘conservatives’ trying to ‘dynamite’ package, she says
- Bronx lawmaker refuses to vote on infrastructure bill alone
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
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House Democrats are careening toward an “ugly” intra-party collision over parts of President Joe Biden’s $4.1 trillion economic agenda, warns Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
The New York lawmaker predicted Friday that she and other progressives would come under increasing pressure to help pass a $550 billion public works bill -- as a stand-alone legislation -- and to drop their insistence on pairing it with a sweeping $3.5 trillion package of social, climate and immigration-reform initiatives.