Cruz sides with Ocasio-Cortez in tweet denouncing Congress as ‘broken’ over stimulus vote

Published December 21, 2020 8:55pm ET



Republican Texas Sen. Ted Cruz agreed with Democratic New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez that it is “absurd” lawmakers voting on the stimulus package only have a limited amount of time to read it.

“Congress is expected to vote on the second largest bill in US history *today* – $2.5 trillion – and as of about 1pm, members don’t even have the legislative text of it yet,” Ocasio-Cortez tweeted Monday.

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