Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

This guy is a leech on the public. No matter how many billions he gets in tax cuts and government contracts, it will never be enough for him.

I don't think we just destroy everything that we have worked so hard for as a country.

I do think that we can examine certain things, like Medicare Advantage, that I think is a scam.

Everything feels increasingly like a scam, that not only are grocery prices going up, but it's like everything has a fee and a surcharge.

I think it's important to call this administration's bluff. I think that this is what authoritarians do.

I was informing all of my constituents of their constitutional protections, and in particular, their constitutional protections against illegal search and seizure in the United States.

We had nearly 435 members on board with it — he sends one tweet, and all of a sudden, everyone backs off.

Republicans' budget has a fundamental math problem. An $880 billion cut is an attack on Medicaid, not 'waste,' 'fraud,' and 'abuse.'

And we can actually get a result for the American people by booting this guy out from political influence.

So I would love a commitment from our Republican counterparts, who we agree with on this issue, to just put it on the floor. And let us vote for it.

Whether you’re a Democrat or you’re a Republican, everyone here was elected to be accountable to the people of the United States — not to be governed by tweet, but to be governed by their duly elected representation.

All of a sudden, this bill that had almost unanimous support fell apart in a matter of hours.

Republicans are in support, Democrats are in support — so what happened? Well, on December 15th, at 4:15 in the morning, Elon Musk began firing off a barrage of social media posts opposing pharmacy benefit manager reform.

The problem here isn’t a substance issue, it’s not a process issue — it’s an oligarchy issue.

While Republicans try to gut Medicaid, Medicare, and Social Security to pay for tax cuts for billionaires, people across the country are standing up against these attacks on the working class.

[Musk] is trying to gut everything good in America for his own private profit. This is the culmination of what oligarchy is all about…the fusion and the capture of the billionaire class of our democracy.

Every day our job is to wake up and say ‘what can I do today?’ There is no act too small. Every action matters.

He is trying to steal Medicaid so that he can enrich himself.

America is not for sale.

We have to not only build out that agenda but also communicate it better with our communities.

[Musk] is trying to gut everything good in America for his own private profit. This is the culmination of what oligarchy is all about…the fusion and the capture of the billionaire class of our democracy.

We have an obligation to resist kings. We have an obligation to resist oligarchs.

Elon Musk is not going after efficiency. He is not going after making these things better for people. He’s trying to steal Medicaid so that he can enrich himself.

Ultimately, Latinos are a deeply working-class constituency that wants to see Democrats committed to fulfilling their promise for real, long-awaited paths to citizenship.

There is a difference between a party benefitting from Trump backlash and a party that earns enduring support through a proactive agenda.