Ocasio-Cortez Joins Republicans In Calling for Stock Ban

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez likely surprised many of her Democratic colleagues when she joined several Republicans on Wednesday in renewing their call for members of Congress to be banned from stock trading.

AOC, a New York Democrat, was brought up to a podium to address reporters by Rep. Tim Burchett (R-Tenn.), who greeted her with a fist bump.

“That’s good. Thank you, thank you, Tim. Good afternoon, everyone. Hope everyone’s doing well. I got to say, I know it was — man, what was it, like six or seven years ago now, Chip — that you and I were elected here. And one of the first conversations that Representative Chip Roy [Texas] and I had, had to do with money in politics, I remember, and just in general,” AOC began.

“And, you know, I think that this issue has brought so many of us across the political spectrum together because we are united by the value that people should feel that their elected representative puts them and their interests first, and that we are here first and foremost to do the job that the public has sent us to do,” she said.

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