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Far-left “Squad” member Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-MA) pushed the Biden administration to cancel “all” student loan debt on Friday, framing the move as a viable way to “thank Black women,” specifically.

Fox News anchor Chris Wallace praised President Joe Biden Friday on “America’s Newsroom” for “not getting pushed around by the left” on issues like student loan forgiveness.

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s (D-NY) team successfully raised $1 million for Texas relief efforts, prompting the New York lawmaker to announce that she will be traveling to the state this weekend.

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) expressed a sense of urgency for the Biden administration to address student loan debt in a significant way by forgiving more than $10,000 per student after President Joe Biden’s failure during Tuesday’s CNN town hall to commit to doing so.

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) held a joint press conference on Monday, announcing funeral benefits to assist low-income New Yorkers in covering the cost of burying their loved ones who have died of the Chinese coronavirus.

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) on Friday defended President Biden’s $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief measure, which the Senate passed Friday morning, contending the nearly $2 trillion price tag should “be a floor, not a ceiling.”

Debate looms among members in the Democrat caucus over which Americans should be eligible to receive another round of coronavirus relief payments directly from the federal government, as some seek to tighten the threshold for eligibility for future payments.

Friday on CBS’s “This Morning,” Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) discussed her account of a “near death” experience during the riot at the U.S. Capitol in January. Her account has been challenged in part because her office is in another location that the people who breached the Capitol reportedly never entered.

CNN anchors Don Lemon, and Chris Cuomo defended Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s (D-NY) emotional telling of her experience during the deadly riots at Capitol Hill on January 6.

Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) is defending herself after she contradicted Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) and stated “no insurrectionists stormed our hallway” in the Cannon office building after the New York Congresswoman was challenged by some conservative media outlets over her claims regarding the riot at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6.

Ocasio-Cortez and progressive lawmakers organized a special order hour on the House Floor to “recount their experiences of the Capitol attack.”

Some in conservative media have challenged Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) over her claims regarding the riot at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, saying she was not technically in the actual U.S. Capitol building but in a nearby House office building.

For the sake of other women, you must drag this monster into the light. Unless, of course, it was Joe Biden who committed the sexual assault.  Then no one will care.  

A new progressive political group with ties to Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is mobilizing to punish two moderate Senate Democrats for their refusal to support abolishing the filibuster.

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said on Monday that she is a sexual assault survivor and that the Capitol attack further traumatized her.

Representative Katie Porter (D-CA) Tuesday on MSNBC’s “The Last Word” recounted the experience she had with Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY)  during the deadly riots on Capitol Hill.

Both Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) and Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) are among lawmakers seemingly calling for congressional action after Robinhood restricted trading for GameStop following a surge spurred by a populist investing movement, but the New York lawmaker rejected Cruz after he agreed with her on social media, telling the senator to “sit this one out” because, she claimed, he almost had her “murdered” three weeks ago — a reference to the January 6 Capitol riot.

Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) said Wednesday on MSNBC’s “All In” that in the “core of the Republican Caucus in the House of Representatives,” there are “legitimate white supremacist sympathizers.”

On Wednesday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “All In,” Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said she is “extraordinarily encouraged” by President Joe Biden’s executive orders on climate change and that the orders show “a good-faith openness and relationship” to activists by Biden. Ocasio-Cortez said,

Federal prosecutors charged a Texas man with tweeting a call to assassinate U.S. Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez during the January 6 attack on the Capitol. The man allegedly tweeted multiple times from inside the Capitol including one where he wrote, “Assassinate AOC.”

Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) said Thursday on CNN’s “Cuomo Prime Time” that she did not attend Wednesday’s inauguration of President Joe Biden out of fear of her colleagues in Congress.

One of President Joe Biden’s top nominees for a senior post within the Department of Justice (DOJ) previously argued for the “strategic” defunding of police.

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) on Thursday reignited what has come to be a semi-routine feud with Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) on social media, fuming over his criticism of President Biden’s decision to rejoin the Paris Climate Agreement.

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) congratulated President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris after the inauguration ceremony on Wednesday, listing a few of the issues she believes Democrats need to begin tackling, including “healing our planet.”

Democrat Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) joined far-left members of the “Squad” in demanding $2,000 direct checks for the American people, but took the request a step further, calling for the checks to be “monthly.”

Far-left members of the “Squad” are publicly shaming one aspect of President-elect Joe Biden’s $1.9 trillion spending plan, which would provide Americans with $1,400 stimulus checks, calling for Congress to provide Americans with $2,000 checks and possibly have them “recurring.”

Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) said Friday on MSNBC’s “The Rachel Maddow Show” that she could not stay in the secure location with Republican members of Congress during the Capitol Hill riots because they sympathize with white supremacist causes.

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) is urging President-elect Joe Biden to follow through on providing $2,000 coronavirus relief checks to the American people following the reveal of his $1.9 trillion spending plan.

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) said on Wednesday that she does not want to hear the “coup-supporting GOP talk about ‘blue lives’ ever again” in the wake of the Capitol protests, concluding that Republicans care more about “preserving the social order and the mythology of whiteness” than democracy.

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez expressed a desire to “rein in” media to prevent the spread of disinformation.

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) went after her GOP colleagues during an Instagram live on Tuesday evening and expressed outrage over Capitol rioters bringing the Confederate flag inside the Capitol, telling GOP members that “white supremacists will never win” and suggesting they resign if they disagree.

Democrats are reportedly discussing censuring Sens. Ted Cruz (R-TX) and Josh Hawley (R-MO) over the Capitol protests that took place last week as Congress gathered to certify the electoral votes from the 2020 presidential election.

Rep. Cori Bush (D-MO), whom some consider the newest member of the far-left “Squad,” is slated to introduce a resolution on Monday to expel lawmakers she alleges “incited a white supremacist coup attempt” last Wednesday as Congress met to certify the electoral votes.

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) responded to a complaint from former White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders, who noted she had lost tens of thousands of Twitter followers as the social media platform began cracking down on accounts and removing President Trump’s, contending the platform is simply targeting “Neo-Nazis and violent insurrectionists.”

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) claimed on Sunday that she respects Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), a far-left “Squad” member who has openly criticized the Democrat Party’s leadership, telling CBS News’s Leslie Stahl she is “not dismissing” people like AOC despite years-long rumors of infighting within the caucus.

Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) Sunday on ABC’s “This Week” called on President Donald Trump to be held accountable for the riots at Capitol Hill last week.