A Democrat challenging New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez for her seat in Congress ripped the freshman lawmaker for her vote against an economic relief package Congress passed in response to the coronavirus last week.
“If she really cared, she would’ve come home after that last vote,” Michelle Caruso-Cabrera told Yahoo Finance. “If she really cared, she wouldn’t drive away 25,000 jobs like she did. If she really cared, she wouldn’t be telling the poorest people in her district not to go back to work like she did earlier this week.”
Caruso-Cabrera continued, “She’s out of touch to tell people who are desperate for food that they shouldn’t go back to work. How out of touch can you be? She clearly hasn’t talked to her constituents.”
A former journalist and Democrat with backing from some on Wall Street, Caruso-Cabrera has come under scrutiny herself after it was revealed she lived in Trump Tower before moving to Queens in late 2019.
Ocasio-Cortez said she voted against the CARES Act because it does not do enough to help people who are being affected by the virus.
“My concern is that we are giving away the farm,” Ocasio-Cortez said. “I cannot go back to my communities and tell them to just wait for CARES four because we have now passed three, four pieces of legislation that’s related to coronavirus. And every time it’s the next one, the next one, the next one, and my constituents are dying.”
Since the virus’s outbreak, Ocasio-Cortez has made several controversial statements.
“You absolutely love to see it,” she tweeted after learning that the value of oil worldwide plummeted earlier this month.
In reference to stay-at-home protests in states across the country, the lawmaker said, “When we have this discussion about ‘going back’ or ‘reopening’ — I think a lot of people should just say, ‘No, we’re not going back to that. We’re not going back to working 70-hour weeks just so that we can put food on the table and not even feel any sort of semblance of security in our lives.’”
