Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: “Don’t you think if you found a bunch of money in the couch cushions that you would put that to expanding Medicaid…”

In the political context that we're in, in an administration that is dedicated to politicizing women's bodies and taking our choices away from us and punishing us around decisions to be pregnant or not be pregnant.

“My insurance does not cover one penny of this,” the congresswoman said.

They are not beholden to any corporate interest or any party boss, and they are completely independent, which allows them to be responsible to their communities and the people that elected them.

I have a local city councilman that has this saying: ‘Woke 1 was crazy’… especially during Covid, I think that the doors were really open in trying to entertain any and every policy that was going to get us to a better place.