And even while the government paid TransDigm $1.5 billion in cash as part of a pandemic debt buyback program to prevent precisely those layoffs from occurring, you took home a total of $90 million in compensation during that time, more than the compensation of chief executives of Lockheed Martin, Boeing, and Raytheon combined.
Ocasio-Cortez criticizes excessive executive compensation despite government support during layoffs.
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What he wants to do is create—or rather, not even create, because it’s already been created—but protect a class of impunity in America that says, 'You can commit whatever crime, and so long as you pay a check to us, we will protect you.'
What we are hoping for is that we want to make sure that we never get to that point.
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