AOC went off on the massive corporate bailout while Americans get ‘crumbs for our families’

Kentucky Rep. Thomas Massie has decided his opportunity to add an egregious delay to passing the much-needed coronavirus relief bill is to grandstand by demanding that legislators from all over the Untied States, who are already dealing with serious public health issues, scramble back to the House in order to give an in-person vote. Rep. Massie obviously took cues from fellow Kentucky Republicans Mitch McConnell and Rand Paul, both of whom have added egregious delays to this process at different points in the crisis. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez made the trip back to Washington from Queens, New York—a U.S. city dealing with the largest and most frightening outbreak of the disease in our country to date. She came back because people like Rep. Massie want to score political points by saying something about bullshit fiscal conservatism and possibly kiss Donald Trump’s ring.

But Rep. Ocasio-Cortez wasn’t having any of that. Before Democrats were able to defeat the dumb GOP stunt on the House floor and pass the stimulus bill, she used the 60 seconds she was given on the floor to absolutely slam the Republican Party’s handling of this national crisis. She slammed the lack of much-needed medical supplies and specifically raged against Republican senators who were fighting and delaying and hemming and hawing over this massive public relief bill so they could give a no-strings-attached bailout to big businesses. The same big businesses who used their last no-strings-attached bailouts to profiteer instead of creating better businesses that served the American people as a whole. 

REP. ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZ: I represent one of the hardest hit communities in the hardest hit city in this country. Queens, New York. 13 dead, in a night, in Elmhurst hospital alone. Our community's reality is this country's future if we don't do anything. Hospital workers do not have protective equipment. We don't have the necessary ventilators.

But we have to go into this vote eyes wide open. What did the Senate majority fight for?! One of the largest corporate bailouts, with as few strings as possible, in American history! Shameful! The greed of that fight is wrong—for crumbs for our families. And the option that we have is to either let them suffer with nothing, or to allow this greed and billions of dollars, which will be leveraged in trillions of dollars, to contribute to the largest income inequality gap in our future. There should be shame about what was fought for in this bill and the choices that we have to make.

And I yield.

Amen.

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