Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez needs to remember she’s in “real Congress,” not “model Congress,” according to Liz Cheney.
Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., and Cheney, R-Wyo., have clashed publicly on Twitter over the liberal firebrand’s comparisons of United States immigration detention facilities and concentration camps.
“I think that any member who suggested, as she did, that the camps on the U.S. border are concentration camps deserves that,” Cheney told reporters Tuesday during a press conference when asked why she has been such a vocal critic of her fellow freshman lawmaker. “That’s a comment that is clearly ludicrous, clearly something that must be responded to,” she added.
Ocasio-Cortez, who has stood by her remarks, should apologize, Cheney said.
“I think that you should be in a position where rather than launching attacks like that, which are clearly political on their face, clearly misinformed, we all ought to be working to try to help the crisis at the border, both the security and the humanitarian crisis at the border. And she and many of her colleagues have now prevented us from bringing the bill to the floor that would do that 17 times,” the House Republican Conference chairwoman said. “So I think it’s very important we focus on the fact that this is real Congress, this isn’t model Congress, we have real work to do and we ought to be getting it done.”
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy was also asked Tuesday whether he believed President Trump’s denial of rape accusations made against him by advice columnist E. Jean Carroll.
“I’ve never met her. I understand what the president said. I know nothing more about the situation,” the California Republican said. “I know the president said this is not true. I haven’t heard anything else about it.”
Carroll alleges Trump raped her in the dressing room of a New York department store in the mid-1990s. The president, as part of his defense, said that Carroll is “not my type.”
