The Democratic Socialists of America’s proposal to abolish the Senate isn’t being embraced by one of its most high-profile elected officials and some of the most progressive members of Congress.

 “I’m a House member, we all hate the Senate,” Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), the highest-ranking DSA member in Congress, joked with the Washington Examiner. “No, I mean listen, we’re working with the institutions that we have, this is a constitutional question.

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