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On the recordJuly 26, 2021
I think one of the things that we are seeing here is that we are facing a choice. Congress is facing a choice of whether we want to give Wall Street another tool of being in charge of the public's money and payments, or whether we can potentially establish a public option here as well.
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Democratic · New York

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Ocasio-Cortez highlights the choice Congress faces regarding public versus private control of money.

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