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What AOC doesn’t understand about McCarthy’s leverage

By Conn Carroll
Published May 19, 2023 3:02pm ET
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What AOC doesn’t understand about McCarthy’s leverage
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., attends a House Oversight Committee hearing on high prescription drugs prices shortly after her meeting with Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., on Capitol Hill in Washington, Friday, July 26, 2019. | (J. Scott Applewhite/AP)

Progressive Democrats are doing their best to shape the final debt limit deal currently being negotiated between Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) and President Joe Biden this week, including holding press conferences to call on Biden to invoke the 14th Amendment and filing discharge petitions for a clean debt limit hike.

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