Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) came out with rockets blasting at Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.) Saturday after the right-wing lawmaker called for the end of government benefits at the Conservative Political Action Conference.
βWeβre here to tell government: βWe donβt want your benefits. We donβt want your welfare,ββ Boebert shouted as she marched back and forth across the stage in Dallas. βDonβt come to us with your Fauci ouchie. Leave us the hell alone!β
Ocasio-Cortez fired back: βTell βem loud and proud girl! GOP will strip your unemployment protections and dismantle any semblance of a public safety net we have left! Then make working people pay way more for everything on low wages while Wall St gets a meal ticket!β
Ocasio-Cortez sarcastically crowed: βGood ol conservative values baby!β
Ironically, Boebert has talked about her own days on welfare, which eventually led her to βliving the American dream.β Now sheβs ready to turn off aid to others.
Boebertβs party has no problem cranking up benefits for the wealthy. Under the Trump administrationβs tax cut β pitched as a boon to the middle class β 60% of the benefits went to the richest 20% of Americans, with the largest cuts as a share of income going to the top 5%. Corporate taxes were slashed 40%.
As for the Paycheck Protection Program during Donald Trumpβs administration, most of the aid went to bigger companies, with just 5% of recipients scarfing up more than half of the $525 billion that went out the door.
The Biden administrationβs $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan extended enhanced and extended unemployment benefits, which began in 2020, until Sept. 6. However, at least 17 Republican governors have announced theyβre cutting those benefits early in their states.
Twitter critics had a few choice responses to Boebertβs call.
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