Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y. is demanding that essential employees across America boycott work –– throughout the Wuhan virus quarantine. AOC wants to use the pandemic to radically revolutionize the U.S. economic system.
And former White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders had some things to say in a brutal response.
“As usual she’s wrong,” Sanders wrote on Twitter.
“The goal should be for Americans to SAFELY return to work because unlike AOC and members of Congress, most of us actually have to show up at work to get paid and support our families!”
Hardworking Americans want to provide for their families… not partake in some socialist revolution pipe dream.
Sanders took her comments a step further on “Fox & Friends,” where she went off on the self-described Democratic socialist for suggesting that Americans should say “no” when prompted to go back to work.
“This is the same Congresswoman who just last week was celebrating the devastation of the oil and gas industry and the hundreds of thousands of jobs that are tied to that … ” Sanders said.
“This is also a person who may want to go back to her roots and remember that most Americans, unlike those in Congress have to show up in order to get paid and that they don’t have the luxury of not doing their job and still being able to provide for her family like she does as a member of Congress.”
As a congresswoman, Ocasio-Cortez has enjoyed the comforts of a large paycheck while working from home like the rest of her colleagues.
But it was only as far back as 2018 that she had been a bartender.
And Sanders gave Ocasio-Cortez a reminder that her life would have been much different if she had still been bartending back in the Bronx, New York City.
“She might wanna go back and remember that when she was a bartender and not a member of Congress, she didn’t have that luxury.”
Ocasio-Cortez hit Sanders back over Twitter. She said Sanders was unqualified to talk about working, citing Sanders’ time as White House press secretary, when the number of briefings were significantly decreased during her time there.
Look who’s talking about showing up for work! The woman didn’t hold a press conference for months while holding a job as press sec.
If you’re so supportive of this admin’s plan, why don’t you go out and try delivering groceries for a living w/o health insurance or mass testing?
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) April 23, 2020
The Horn editorial team