Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said she does not have a relationship with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and that the California lawmaker is attempting to sidetrack her by making her busy with committee assignments.

“I think sometimes people think that we have a relationship,” the New York Democrat said in an interview with The New Yorker Radio Hour. “Not particularly,” the freshman representative added when asked if the two had a relationship.

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