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“I want to stop the spread. They are picking homes like you, and I pick tomatoes in the grocery store.”
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On the recordSeptember 10, 2019
This is a cruel policy change, and this fits a pattern that we have been seeing over and over again before this committee of a culture and an of policies specifically almost animated by cruelty.
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Democratic · New York
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Editor's note · Context

Ocasio-Cortez criticizes policies targeting vulnerable individuals as cruel.

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