Amazon follows the money

THE SWAMP — Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez won’t be the only one setting up home bases in both Queens and the Beltway. The bartender-turned-congresswoman-elect will be joined by the world’s richest man: Jeff Bezos. Bezos’s retail giant Amazon announced Tuesday it would split its second headquarters between Northern Virginia and Long Island City.

While Ocasio-Cortez has noted how expensive it is for a working-class woman to keep a home in both cities, Bezos will get by with a little help from his friends in government. New York state and Virginia have offered a combined $2 billion in subsidies for Amazon to locate within their boundaries.